for loops

paul.d.finkel pfinkel at cbnewsb.cb.att.com
Wed Apr 10 04:52:56 AEST 1991


In article <3693 at ux.acs.umn.edu> edh at ux.acs.umn.edu (Merlinus Ambrosius) writes:
>In sh, I'd like to do something like a BASIC for loop.  Say I have $FILES
>set to some number, and I'd like to go through a loop $FILES times.  Can
>this be done in sh?
>
>Thanks!
>		--eric
Sure!

	count=0
	while $count -lt $files
		do
		:
		count=`expr $count + 1`
		done
I think this will do it!

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