On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Matt <matt.mailinglists at gmail.com> wrote: > There is a unix command called repeat. > > repeat 10 some_command Someone has already mentioned tcsh, but this is also a builtin (syntactic operator like "while" or "for", actually) in zsh. repeat 10 simple_command repeat 10 do list; of; commands; done repeat 10 { list; of; commands }