Re: [arch-general] OT: dash - looping through alphabet

6 Jul 2014


      On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 12:23 AM, Ralf Mardorf
<ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com> wrote:
...
On Sun, 2014-07-06 at 21:16 +0800, lolilolicon wrote:
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for i in $(seq 97 122); do
  printf "\x$(printf %x $i)\n"
done
$ bash seq-dash
a
b
[snip]
x
y
z
$ dash seq-dash
\x61
\x62
[snip]
\x78
\x79
\x7a
I didn't know dash's printf didn't support \x. Try octal then:

for i in $(seq 97 122); do
  printf "\\$(printf %o $i)\n"
done
...
$ cat seq-dash
for i in $(seq 97 122); do
  printf "\x$(printf %x $i)\n"
done
:(
Regards,
Ralf