for loops
Chet Ramey
chet at odin.INS.CWRU.Edu
Sun Apr 7 08:02:18 AEST 1991
In article <2816 at maestro.htsa.aha.nl> miquels at maestro.htsa.aha.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg) writes:
$ POSIX states that sh(1) should be able to evaluate expressions,
$ so you can do something like
$ while [ $FILES != 0 ]
$ do
$ echo -n '* '
$ FILES=$[$FILES - 1]
$ done
$
$ But I haven't seen a sh anywhere that is already capable of doing this
Bash can do this, at least as of version 1.07.
Chet
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