On Thursday 01 April 2004 02:45 Scott@Charter's cat walking on the keyboard
wrote:
> I can't get this bash script to work. It's suppose to print all odd
> numbers from 1 to 10.
>
> #!/usr/bin/bash
>
> LIMIT=10
> a=1
>
> while [ "$a" -le $LIMIT ]
> do
> if [ "$a" -eq $(1 3 5 7 9) ] <---------Something not right here.
This is an awkard way to print all odd numbers, have a look at this:
#!/bin/bash
LIMIT=10
a=1
while test ${a} -lt ${LIMIT}
do
go=`expr ${a} % 2`
if test ${go} -ne 0
then
echo "Odd number ${a}"
fi
a=`expr ${a} + 1`
done
exit 0
In this example, if you change the LIMIT value to 100, the script will print
you all odds numbers, while in your example you have to put numbers by your
own. In perl it can result as:
#!/usr/bin/perl
$LIMIT=10;
$a=1;
while( $a < $LIMIT ){
if( ($a % 2) !=0 ){
print "Odd number $a\n";
}
$a++;
}
exit;
Luca
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