On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 6:45 PM, John R. Dennison <jrd at gerdesas.com> wrote: > 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. Is it _really_ that hard to type the explicit loop with test ([) and expr? These were builtins even in bourne shell eons ago. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com