6 Jul
2014
6 Jul
'14
4:56 p.m.
# ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com / 2014-07-05 22:44:20 +0200:
Hi!
Sorry, it's OT for this list, but I didn't find an answer in the Internet.
What's the syntax for a loop from "a" to "z" in dash?
for c in $(printf "%b\n" $(printf "\\\0%o\n" $(seq 97 122))); do ... done for some reason, while dash(1) claims %c in printf(1) behaves just like in C, `printf "%c" 97` gives "9" (`printf("%c", 97)` in C gives "a"). this behavior is consistent across bash, dash, pdksh, posh, tcsh, zsh. -- roman