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From: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz)
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Subject: Re: Bourne Shell (/bin/sh) counting?
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Date: 19 Mar 90 17:36:23 GMT
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In-Reply-To: rbottin@atl.calstate.edu (Richard John Botting)

In article <22788@adm.BRL.MIL>, rbottin@atl (Richard John Botting) writes:
| I'd like to see a neat solution (other than a "increment.c" program).

If you insist on doing the main looping in sh,

for i in `perl -e '@a=1..20;print"@a";'`
do
	echo $i
done

If you want to just launch stuff quickly,

perl -e 'for $i (1..20) {system "echo $i";}'

Look ma.  No C!

Just another Perl hacker,
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