Ben de Luca wrote:
> just for interest is there a way? of doing this so its entirely in
> /bin/sh? there by making it portable
They key to doing arithmetic in the shell is 'let', which operates
on environment variables sans dollar sign:
n=10
let i=1
while [ $i -lt $n ]; do
echo $i
let i=i+1
done
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