Re: cat problem

From: Stephane CHAZELAS (this.address_at_is.invalid)
Date: 11/07/04 

Date: 07 Nov 2004 19:12:45 GMT

2004-11-7, 18:12(+00), Weiguang Shi:
> Thanks for the help!
>
> Stephane CHAZELAS wrote:
>>Note that with zsh, you don't need seq.
>>
>>for i in {1..9}
> Nice albeit incompatible.
[...]

Should be compatible with any reasonably recent version of zsh
and with bash versions 3.0 or above.

On the other hand, seq works only on GNU systems.

>>for ((i=1; i<=9; i++))
[...]

That one works with zsh, ksh93 and bash 2.04 or above. 

-- 
Stephane

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