[CentOS] repeat command

Thu May 2 23:45:58 UTC 2013
John R. Dennison <jrd at gerdesas.com>

On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 01:36:36AM +0200, Markus Falb wrote:
> 
> this works but at least with bash you can do it with brace expansion
> for x in {1..10}; do … ; done
> 
> it's a bashism but maybe more portable, e.g. OS-X has no seq
> no fork (for the seq) is necessary as well

True.  Thing I like about seq is that it also takes an optional
increment value which can be very handy at times.






							John
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