for loops
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Thu Apr 4 14:36:20 AEST 1991
In article <3693 at ux.acs.umn.edu>, edh at ux.acs.umn.edu (Merlinus Ambrosius) writes...
>In sh, I'd like to do something like a BASIC for loop. Say I have $FILES
>set to some number, and I'd like to go through a loop $FILES times. Can
>this be done in sh?
>
>Thanks!
> --eric
How about either
while [ $FILES -gt 0 ]
do
# body
FILES=`expr $FILES - 1`
done
or
i=0
while [ $i -lt $FILES ]
do
# body
i=`expr $i + 1`
done
Chris
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