6 Jul
2014
6 Jul
'14
12:52 p.m.
On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 10:44 PM, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com> wrote:
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?
[rocketmouse@archlinux src]$ cat for-bash #!/bin/bash for str in {a..z} ; do printf "$str"; done printf "\n" exit
[rocketmouse@archlinux src]$ cat for-dash #!/bin/dash for str in {a..z} ; do printf "$str"; done printf "\n" exit
[rocketmouse@archlinux src]$ ./for-bash abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz [rocketmouse@archlinux src]$ ./for-dash {a..z}
Regards, Ralf
You can use echo $(seq -s '' 1 9) for number sequences, but I don't think you can do it with letters.