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[ogniemi]

Hello,

Is it possible to replace a list "1 2 3 4 5" in "for" loop in KSH with short form 1-5?
I don't want to substitute it with while or until loop.

rgrds,M.

 

[olded]

Hi:

I don't know of a way to do exactly what you're asking for, but some versions of KSH support the for expression/compound list similar to "C":

for (( i = 1; i <= 5; i++ ))
do
echo $i
done
# end stub

This doesn't work on my Solaris 7 /bin/ksh (although Bolsky's 'The NewKornshell' says it should). It does work with ksh93 and bash. Your mileage may vary.

Ed

 

[SamBones]

This should work...

#!/bin/ksh

for X in 1 2 3 4 5
do
    print "X is ${X}"
done

I don't think you can use the form 1-5. That's normally used for pattern matching with square brackets as in [1-5]. If you used files with the names of the numbers, this should work...

#!/bin/ksh

touch ./0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

for X in [3-7]
do
    print "X is ${X}"
done

rm [0-9]

Hope this helps.