[ILUG] shell script question

[Dave O Connor]

Someone called Paul Jakma said on Wed, May 03, 2000 at 12:53:23PM +0100:
> any easy to expand out a series of numbers in bash?
> 
> ie i want to do:
> 
> for H in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 etc.. etc.. ; do
> ..
>  .
> .
> done
> 
> but something like 
> 
> for H in 0 to 254 ; do
>  .
> .
>  .
> done 
> 
> would be much easier. the [..] thing doesnt seem to be evaluated..
> 
> any ideas?

try the "jot" command. It exists under freebsd, not sure about linux.

for i in `jot 254 1 254`
do
...
done

	- DoC

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