On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 03:03:27PM +0100, David selby wrote: > I am writing bash a bash & sed script, it has been going suprisingly > well. I need a loop to count 9 times & the variable n to the count .. > > for n=1 to 9 > .... > next
for n in $(seq 1 9); do ... done > kind of thing, but this is not BASIC !! > > My best guess is > > declare -i n=1 > while [ $n < 9 ]; do See the test(1) man page; you need -lt here, not <. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]