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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: for loops
Message-ID: <17506:Apr1308:02:3191@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Date: 13 Apr 91 08:02:31 GMT
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In article <13418:Apr1203:39:4891@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:
> In article <1991Apr10.212216.24238@amc.com> stuart@tfatf.amc.com (Stuart Poulin) writes:
> > In article <54239@mirror.tmc.com> kiyun@mirror.UUCP (KiYun Roe) writes:
> > >I like this!  I've been looking for a simple way to do this.  I didn't
> > >realize that there was a command like yes.  Is it BSD, System V, or
> > >both?
> I believe it appeared in v7, but I'm not sure how portable the argument
> is.

Correction: I looked it up, and AT&T didn't have it in 1985. Oh, well.

---Dan