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Subject: Re: feature request: more complete set -e
From: Chet Ramey <chet.ramey () case ! edu>
Date: 2009-06-30 22:20:41
Message-ID: 4A4A8FB9.1050000 () case ! edu
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Marc Weber wrote:
> Chet:
>> To do otherwise would have made expr much less useful. Idioms such as
>>
>> var=10
>> while var=`expr $var - 1`
>> do
>> echo $var
>> done
>
> Mmh I'd use the C like for loop for this which is supported by bash as well.
>
A relatively recent addition to the language. The while loop idiom has
been around since the original Bourne shell.
Chet
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