This is not a bash builtin, so can potentially cause portability issues. Additionally, the use of it is completely unnecessary as it can all be done within bash (and done faster). $ time pactree xfwm4 >/dev/null (old version) real 0m3.245s $ time ./contrib/pactree xfwm4 >/dev/null (new version) real 0m3.042s Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org> --- contrib/pactree | 5 ++++- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/contrib/pactree b/contrib/pactree index 73bece3..cb719f3 100755 --- a/contrib/pactree +++ b/contrib/pactree @@ -130,9 +130,12 @@ _tree(){ # Generate the spacer spacer="" - for each in $(seq 1 $spaces); do + local count=0 + while [[ $count -lt $spaces ]]; do spacer="$spacer$separator" + count=$((count+1)) done + unset count spacer="$spacer$branch_tip" [ $silent -ne 1 ] && echo -e "$branch_color$spacer$leaf_color$pkg_name$provided" -- 1.7.3.1