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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: How to make a script file?
Message-ID: <7543@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 27 Jan 89 04:01:26 GMT
References: <5828@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Reply-To: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
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Organization: Chinet - Public Access Unix
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In article <5828@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> amlovell@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Anthony M Lovell) writes:

>I want to write a shell script (or whatever) which will be used thusly:

>scriptname N   ( N an integer)
>for i := 1 to 56 do
>  cat glob.N bbi.N | Mail bbi
>
>It's pretty easy, I guess - important things to note are that the files
>and address aliases bbi must have I always as 2 digits.
>ie: bb09
>
>Can you tell me how to do this?
>Even if I must have 56 lines to meet the above criteria?
>Thanks mucho.

#! /bin/sh
#first arg is N
i=0
while [ $i -lt 56 ]
do
  i=`expr $i + 1`
  case $i in
    ?)  i=0$i
        ;;
  esac
  cat glob.$1 bb${i}.$1 | Mail bb$i
done
exit


Les Mikesell