for loops

[Chet Ramey]

In article <2816 at maestro.htsa.aha.nl> miquels at maestro.htsa.aha.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg) writes:

$ POSIX states that sh(1) should be able to evaluate expressions, 
$ so you can do something like
$ while [ $FILES != 0 ]
$ do
$ 	echo -n '* '
$ 	FILES=$[$FILES - 1]
$ done
$ 
$ But I haven't seen a sh anywhere that is already capable of doing this

Bash can do this, at least as of version 1.07.

Chet
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