On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 10:05:45PM -0600, Michael Heironimus wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 10:51:00PM -0500, Neal Lippman wrote:
> > shell variable to the alphabet string (export alpha="A,B,C,...,Z"), but
> > then the command:
> > for x in {$alpha} ;
> > do
> > echo $x;
> > done
> > winds up printing the string "{A,B,C,...,Z}" rather than each letter on
> > a separate line as expected.
>
> alpha="a b c d e .... z"
> for x in $alpha ; do
> echo $x
> done
>
> I think this should work in any Bourne-style shell....
>
> --
> Michael Heironimus
>
Doesn't work for me in bash:
$ for x in "a b c d e .... z"; do printf "$x "; done; printf "\n"
a b c d e .... z
$
As for the original poster, an ugly solution might be with seq and tr:
$ for x in $(seq 1 5); do export y=$(printf "$x" | tr 1-5 a-e); printf
"$y "; done; printf "\n"
a b c d e
$
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