[CentOS] repeat command

[Scott Robbins]

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.

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