Hi! On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 09:32:15AM -0500, Daniel A. Ramaley wrote: >On Tuesday July 22 2008 09:04, you wrote: >>> for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9; do >>> ftp http://openbsd.org/faq/faq0${i}.html >>> done >>> for i in 10 11 12 13 14 15; do >>> ftp http://openbsd.org/faq/faq${i}.html >>> done
>>Wouldn't it be simpler to be done in one loop? >>for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15; do >> ftp http://openbsd.org/faq/faq${i}.html >>done >>ftp http://openbsd.org/faq/index.html >Note that the 2 loops are not the same. You'd need: >for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15; do > ftp http://openbsd.org/faq/faq`printf %02d $i`.html >done >The number list could be collapsed into `seq 1 15` on a system with seq >installed. jot(1) helps. $ jot 15 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 $ jot -w%02d 15 1 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 $ Kind regards, Hannah.
