On Sun, 17 Mar 2013, Bruce Dawson wrote:
Chris Down pointed that out. My loop now looks like this -- portable (I believe) and fast:BashCount() { for (( i = $1 ; i > 0 ; i-- )); do
No, that is not portable. The only portable use of (( ... )) is $(( ... )) -- Chris F.A. Johnson, <http://cfajohnson.com/> Author: Pro Bash Programming: Scripting the GNU/Linux Shell (2009, Apress) Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)
