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I have gotten the following to work:

It produces a bunch of lines of output: 2, output: 3, so on.

However, trying to run the following:

produces the following:

How can I get the compiler to realize it should treat $max as the other end of the array, and not part of a string?

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Brace expansion, {x.y} is performed before other expansions, so you cannot use that for variable length sequences.

Instead, use the seq 2 $max method as user mob stated.

So, for your example it would be:

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Try the arithmetic-expression version of for:

This is available in most versions of bash, and should be Bourne shell (sh) compatible also.

system PAUSEsystem PAUSE

Step the loop manually:

If you don’t have to be totally POSIX, you can use the arithmetic for loop:

Or use jot(1) on BSD systems:

Nietzche-jouNietzche-jouephemientephemient

If the seq command available on your system:

If not, then use poor man's seq with perl:

Watch those quote marks.

mobmob

This is a way:
Bash:

The above Bash way will work for ksh and zsh too, when bash -c is replaced with ksh -c or zsh -c respectively.

Note: for i in {2.${max}}; do echo $i; done works in zsh and ksh.

JahidJahid

Here it worked on Mac OS X.

It includes the example of a BSD date, how to increment and decrement the date also:

Peter Mortensenminhas23minhas23

Well, as I didn't have the seq command installed on my system (Mac OS X v10.6.1 (Snow Leopard)), I ended up using a while loop instead:

*Shrugs* Whatever works.

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These all do {1.8} and should all be POSIX. They also will not break if youput a conditional continue in the loop. The canonical way:

Another way:

and another:

Use:

You need the explicit 'eval' call to reevaluate the {} after variable substitution.

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What Is the Command Line?

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The application or user interface that accepts your typed responses and displays the data on the screen is called a shell, and there are many different varieties that you can choose from, but the most common these days is the Bash shell, which is the default on Linux and Mac systems in the Terminal application.

By default, Windows systems only include the anemic Command Prompt application, which has nowhere near the power of Bash, so for the purposes of this article we're going to suggest you use the open source Cygwin tool as your Windows command line, since it's quite a bit more powerful. You'll also at some point want to read parts one, two, and three of our series on using the Bash shell under Cygwin—the tips apply to Linux and OS X as well.

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Basic Command Line Usage

To get started with the command line, you'll need to open up a terminal window and get ready to start typing commands. Here's a list of basic commands you can use, organized by the type of activity that you might want to perform.

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When you run your terminal application (Cygwin on Windows, Terminal on Mac and Linux), your command prompt will start up pointing to a specific folder on your hard drive. You can navigate between folders, act on files inside those folders, or perform other actions.

List Files
First, let's display a list of files inside the active folder. For this task, you'll need to use the ls command. You can pass a number of parameters to the command to display extra details or change the sorting. For instance, if I add -l to the end of my ls command, I'll see a detailed listing; -t will sort the results by file time; -S will sort by file size; and -r will reverse the sorting. You could use a combination of these together, like this command, which will show all files sorted by file size with the largest files at the bottom:

ls -lSr

If you use the –a option, you can see hidden files, and you'll also notice something else in the listing: there are two entries for '.' and '.' at the beginning of the list. These represent the current folder—the '.' folder—and the parent folder—the '.' folder.

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Change Directories
You can change between directories using the cd command, and using what we just learned about the '.' folder, you can use the following command to switch to the directory directly above the current one:

cd .

You can navigate to either full or relative paths. For example, the command above navigates to a relative path—one above the current folder. If you're in /path/to/ and you want to navigate to the folder stuff inside that folder, you can simply type:

cd stuff

You can also navigate to absolute paths. Again, if I were in /path/to/ and I want to navigate to /another/path/, I would simply type:

cd /another/path

To swap directories to the previous working directory, the '-' (hyphen) shortcut is handy to have on hand. For example, if you were in the /first/folder/path/ directory and then switched over to /etc/ to make a configuration change, you might not want to type in the full path to switch back. You can quickly switch back to the previous working directory with this command:

cd -

Creating or Removing Folders
To create a new folder, you can simply use the mkdir <foldername> command. You can then remove any folder with the rmdir <foldername> command—as long as the folder is empty. If there are files in the folder, you'll have to delete those files before you can remove the folder.

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Creating and Removing Files
You can use the touch <filename> command to create a new, blank file, and then use the rm <filename> command to delete files:

rm filename

You can quickly remove all files in a directory by using the '*' (asterisk) wildcard—another simple tool that will come in very handy during your time in the command line. For example, if you're in a folder and want to delete every file inside that folder, just type:

rm *

If you want to delete a list of files and folders, including all files from subdirectories, without prompting you for every single entry, you can use the -r option for recursive, and the -f option for force. This command will wipe out every instance of a matching filename pattern (note the slightly different use of the wildcard) from the current directory and below:

rm –rf filename.*

Edit Plain Text Files
The command that you use to edit text files will be different based on the platform you're using and the application you prefer to use. If you're using Ubuntu Linux, you can use the nano editor to quickly edit files, which might be more suitable for beginners.

nano /path/to/file

Otherwise, the vim editor is available on just about any system and can be invoked with the vi <filename> syntax.

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Displaying Files
You can display the file contents directly on the screen with the cat command, but the results will probably go flying past you on most large files, so it's usually better to use the more or less commands. For instance:

more <filename>

This will display the contents of a file on the screen, and prompt you to scroll through the file a screen at a time.

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Command Redirection
Each command line application can accept standard input and writes to standard output, and you can use the > or operators to redirect output from one command into another, which lets you chain commands together into much more powerful commands.

For instance, if you want to use ls –l to display a list of files but it keeps scrolling off the screen, you can pipe the output from the ls –l command into the input of the more command by using the character:

ls –l more

If you wanted to save the output of that list directly into a file instead of displaying on the console, you could use the > operator to redirect the output into a file instead:

ls -l > filename.list

You could then use the cat command to display the contents of that file, pipe that into the grep command (detailed further below), and then redirect that output into a separate file:

cat filename.list grep keyword > filefound.list

Running a Script in the Current Folder
If you have an application or shell script in the current folder, you can't simply type the name of the command and expect it to start. You'll need to add a ./ to the beginning of the command in order to start it. Why? Because in the Bash shell, the current directory, or '.' folder, is not included in the system path. So to launch scriptname.sh in the current folder, you'll need to use:

./scriptname.sh

Using History
You can use the history command to show a list of all the recently used commands, or the up/down arrows to loop through them. The Ctrl+R shortcut key will start a search mode where you can type the first few characters of a command to search through your recent history.

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Looping Over a Set of Files
If you want to loop through a set of filenames and perform an action on each one, you can use the for command to loop through a set of files. For instance, to loop through all the .txt files in the current directory and display them on the console, you could use:

for f in *.txt;do echo $f;done

Find Files
You can use the very powerful find command to search for files on your system. For instance, if you wanted to find all files with .txt in the name that were modified in the last 5 days, you would use this command:

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Find a Text String in Files
The grep command can be used to quickly find text within files, even searching through subdirectories. For instance, if you wanted to search through all files in the current directory and below it for 'text string', you could use this command:

grep –ir 'text string' *

Batch Rename Files
You can use the rename command to quickly rename files using a regular expression pattern. For instance, if you wanted to rename all files containing foo to contain bar instead, you could use a command like this one:

rename –v 's/foo/bar/g' *

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Using Bash Shortcut Keys
There are a number of very useful shortcut keys you can use in the bash shell, and it pays to master them all. Here's a couple to get you started:

• Ctrl + U: Clears the line from the cursor point back to the beginning.
• Ctrl + A: Moves the cursor to the beginning of the line.
• Ctrl + E: Moves the cursor to the end of the line.
• Ctrl + R: Allows you to search through the previous commands.

Customizing Your Command Shell

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There's no need to do your work in a boring terminal when you can do all sorts of tricks to customize it, like changing the colors, fonts, and adding aliases to complicated commands to save yourself time.

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Using Aliases
Aliases save you loads of time by shortening long, complicated commands down into really simple ones, or by setting the default parameters to a command so you don't have to type them every time. For instance, if you wanted to set up an alias for installing packages on your Ubuntu setup that's quicker and simpler than sudo apt-get install packagename, you could use something like this:

alias agi='sudo apt-get install'

This alias would make it so you could simply type agi packagename at the shell to install any package in fewer keystrokes. You can also use aliases to set the default arguments for a command, so if you always wanted ls to actually do ls –l, you could use this alias:

alias ls='ls –l'

There are any number of useful aliases that you can use to personalize your setup, but if you're having trouble coming up with good ideas, check out the list of the ten most useful aliases.

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Control Your System from the Shell

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The terminal has a rich set of tools for manipulating processes and checking on system stats. You can use the ps command to see a list of system processes like this:

ps aux

You can then use the kill <pid> command to get rid of any processes that you want to kill. You can also use top to easily kill processes from a more graphical list of running processes by simply using the K key.

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These examples not enough for you? Check out our top 10 command-line tools, our list of useful commands for Mac users, our guide to turbocharging your terminal, or the list of ten handy bash aliases.

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