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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: for loops
Message-ID: <27850:Apr700:08:2591@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Date: 7 Apr 91 00:08:25 GMT
References: <3693@ux.acs.umn.edu> <1991Apr3.213023.23397@athena.mit.edu> <rich.670890780@pencil>
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In article <rich.670890780@pencil> rich@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