Aaron Trumm <aaron@xxxxxxxxx>, on Sun Apr 25, 2004 [07:21:58 PM] said: > someone else mentioned seq too and I've been trying to use it but can't get > the syntax right - what you've just posted is new to me > > is there a bash reference somewhere? obviously there is - the tutorial I > was reading didn't mention seq though > > I tried > > for X in seq '1 9' > > and > for X in seq 1 9 > > but neither of those works Hi; seq is just a handy command, not a part of bash. (man seq for useful options) If you want to access the output of a useful command in one of your scripts, you could do it like this: for X in $(seq 1 99) ; do or for X in `seq 1 99` ; do Unix has many many little commands designed to make your life easier, particularly for scripts. Paul set@xxxxxxxxx
