On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 10:15:50PM -0400, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Mar 2013, Chris Down wrote:
> > ExprCount() {
> > for (( i = $1 ; i > 0 ; i-- )); do
> > :
> > done
> > echo "$1 iterations"
> > }
>
> Or, in a POSIX-compliant manner:
>
> ExprCount() {
> i=$1
> while [ $(( i -= 1 )) -ge 0 ]; do
> :
> done
> echo Just did $1 iterations using expr math
> }
Are you saying that
for (( ; ; ))
is not POSIX?
--
William
