<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
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