On Wed, 3 May 2000, John N S Gill wrote:
> Following works in bash:
>> i=0
> while [ $i -lt 256 ]; do
> echo $i
> i=$(( $i + 1 ))
> done
Whoops - sure makes my concatenating variables thing look every bit as bad
as it is. But of course this won't work in sh (ssh! - don't mention expr -
anyway, thing of the overhead of all those expr calls :-) )
Regards,
Niall
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