<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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