[Techtalk] Looping with numbers in filenames

David Sumbler david at aeolia.co.uk
Wed Feb 16 01:21:53 UTC 2011


On Tue, 2011-02-15 at 11:01 -0600, Kathryn Hogg wrote:
> Small typo in my previous post, I had an errant $ in the echo command
> 
> num=1;
> while expr $num '<' 25 >/dev/null
> do
>    echo file${num}.txt;
>    num=$(expr $num + 1);
> done

That works brilliantly.  Thanks for this, and thanks too to Benjamin and
Michelle for their suggestions.

David
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