for loops
Dan Bernstein
brnstnd at kramden.acf.nyu.edu
Sun Apr 7 10:08:25 AEST 1991
In article <rich.670890780 at pencil> rich at pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel) writes:
> for i in `head -$FILES /usr/dict/words`
> echo -n "*"
> done
for i in `yes | head -$FILES`
echo -n "*"
done
But for this I'd probably just write
yes '*' | head -$FILES | tr -d '
'
And let's not forget the poor man's count script:
#!/bin/sh
( echo $1 ; yes | head -$2 | sed 's/y/p1+/' ) | dc
$1 is the starting number, $2 how many numbers to produce. It even works
for floating-point---try count 3.14159 10.
---Dan
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