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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting help with while loop or any other alternative? Post 302186722 by filthymonk on Friday 18th of April 2008 01:59:41 AM
Old 04-18-2008
help with while loop or any other alternative?

Code:
i=1
while [ $i -le $1 ]
do

mm=02
dd=03
yy=2008

echo "$mm$dd$yy"

        i=$(( i+1))
        echo "$i"
done

whenever i execute the script above i will get the error below:

syntax error at line 30: `i=$' unexpected

could anyone kindly tell me what is wrong with the above script or is there any other alternative loop that i can use ? can i use a 'for loop' ?
 

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