On 12/11/2010 10:19 AM, Genes MailLists wrote: > On 12/11/2010 09:34 AM, S Mathias wrote: > >> but what's the "magic" for this? : >> >> $ MAGIC; do echo "Welcome $i times"; done >> Welcome 0 times >> Welcome 1 times >> Welcome 4 times >> Welcome 5 times >> Welcome 8 times >> Welcome 9 times >> $ >> >> thanks:\ >> >> > > Probably lots of ways to do this here's one: Perhaps you have a short list rather than an arithmetic expression - in that case an array would work: list=( 0 1 4 5 8 dogs peanut 11 ) num=${#list[*]} typeset -i i i=0 while (( i <= num )) do echo hi ${list[i]} i="i+1" done -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines