On 2013-03-18 00:46, Linda Walsh wrote: > Bruce Dawson wrote: > > Chris Down pointed that out. My loop now looks like this -- portable (I > > believe) and fast: > > > > BashCount() { > > for (( i = $1 ; i > 0 ; i-- )); do > > : > > done > > echo Just did $1 iterations using bash math > > } > ---- > To do the above, you'd want to pre-init
There is no need to preinitialise the variable, I'm not sure why you think it is necessary.