Sometimes it is necessary to generate a range of
numbers for further use within a command pipe or
shell script. This can be done with some simple
sh-code:
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#! /bin/sh
# range - Generate of numbers.
lo=$1
hi=$2
while [ $lo -le $hi ]
do
echo -n $lo " "
lo=`expr $lo + 1`
done
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It can now be used a way like:
for i in `range 69 4711`; do ; done
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