On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 01:36:36AM +0200, Markus Falb wrote: > On 03.Mai.2013, at 00:01, John R. Dennison wrote: > > > On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 04:26:06PM -0500, Matt wrote: > >> > >> repeat 10 dig @server-ip-address +short +tries=1 +time=1 your-zone.com a > >> > > > > for x in $(seq 1 10); do dig @server-ip-address +short +tries=1 +time=1 your-zone.com a; done > > 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 I believe OSX has jot, which is what I used to use with FreeBSD. Fairly similar, and OSX does use bash so the expansion ought to work. Don't have a MAC or BSD box to test right now. -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6