just for interest is there a way? of doing this so its entirely in /bin/sh? there by making it portable


oh and is this html mail?



On Friday, August 29, 2003, at 01:10 PM, Jeff Waugh wrote:


<quote who="Douglas Stalker">

In a shell script, is the a better (i.e.: more elegant) way to get a
variable to cycle from 1 to another value (such as 100)

Currently I am using:

$ I=1 ; while [ "$I" -le "10" ]; do echo $I ; I=`expr $I + 1`; done

for i in $(seq 1 10); do echo $i done

- Jeff

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