On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 15:38, Rob Lahaye wrote: > Darren Freeman wrote: > > > > Aaah crap, my /bin/sh is a symlink to bash =) No wonder =) > > > > OK so reading the above, what's the sh way of doing these things? Since > > I don't even have sh it explains why I don't have the manpage... > > What funny OS are you using?
Mandrake Linux 9.0 =) > Instead of "you writing semi-sh script and having me testing it for you", > I suggest you install the real "sh" on your OS and write & test the script > yourself :) Wouldn't that be more sensible? it might but I was hoping it wouldn't take long to fix those two things.. and up until now I thought I was using sh.. Mandrake tricked me into thinking I had compatibility =( > Instead of the C-style for loop, you could do something like: > > count="0" # or whatever start value. > while ( "$count" != "$someMaxValue" ) > do > # > # Do your thing here > # > count=`expr $count + 1` > done I just did a while (( --count > 0 )) do ... done Is that valid? > I'm not sure, but something like this should work. > Although a more experienced script writer may have a much > better solution.... Yeah if only.. if only.. at least I'm slowly becoming a more experienced script writer (at everybody else's expense =) > Regards, > Rob. Darren
