for loops

[Steven P. Mazurek]

In article <3693 at ux.acs.umn.edu>, edh at ux.acs.umn.edu (Merlinus Ambrosius) writes:
> .....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?
> 

You don't mention the type of shell your using, but for
Bourne investigate the command expr(1).

	while [ $FILES -ne 0 ]		# use strings if its more comfortable
	do  .... things ....
	    FILES=`expr $FILES - 1`
	done



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