On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 03:14, 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
Both solutions work in sh for me. > oh and is this html mail? Well, if it is it renders as an extremely good counterfeit plain-text mail in evolution. James. > > > 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 > > > > -- > > linux.conf.au 2004: Adelaide, Australia > > http://lca2004.linux.org.au/ > > > > "Laughter is a force for democracy." - John Cleese > > -- > > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug > > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
