for loops
paul.d.finkel
pfinkel at cbnewsb.cb.att.com
Wed Apr 10 05:11:45 AEST 1991
In article <1991Apr9.185256.18650 at cbfsb.att.com> pfinkel at cbnewsb.cb.att.com (paul.d.finkel) writes:
>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!
Escuse mio, per favor. You need brackets around your test statetment:
while [ $count -lt $files ]
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