seq is relatively new. I only found out about it a few months ago. But you can use a 'for' loop!! The disadvantage of a 'while' is that you have to remember to increment the counter somewhere …

Sep 8, 2008 · I commonly like to use a slight variant on the standard for loop. I often use this to run a command on a series of remote hosts. I often use this to run a command on a series of …

May 11, 2021 · Well, the use of && in the loop is the same as any other time really isn't it. Do you need the second thing to happen only if the first happens, then use && else ; suffices. Really, …

Dec 14, 2009 · all the books on shell scripting available in the market & internet have a chapter dedicated to loops.please put some efforts in studying them before starting programming in …

Jul 3, 2024 · Correct your syntax: spaces must be used around [and ], parameter expansions must be quoted, and -gt is appropriate for numeric comparisons inside of [ ]. > in sh is used as …

Oct 6, 2009 · Declare variable outside of the loop, set value and use it outside of loop requires done <<< "$(...)" syntax. Application need to be run within a context of current console. Quotes …

Nov 12, 2010 · To allow spaces in filenames, IFS can be set to newline only before the for loop and unset after the loop to restore the default behaviour (using IFS=$'\n' and unset IFS) – …

Jul 29, 2013 · I wasn't familiar with that syntax, and I had to look it up. It doesn't sound like it was intended to be used in for loops. bash has newer ways of doing this, but the traditional way is

Sep 16, 2011 · What would be the syntax for displaying the date of creation or at least the date of last modification of the file? Another thing is, what is the syntax for creating a for loop? From …

Oct 4, 2008 · Also, each operation takes about the same time, so adds about 4μs to each iteration of the loop for me. Here an operation is an echo in the body, an arithmetic compare, an …