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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting For/While Loop to Increment Filenames in a Script Post 302724291 by Scott on Wednesday 31st of October 2012 01:00:13 PM
Old 10-31-2012
Code:
count=$((count + 1))

I think some shells support something like what you had, but I've never used that syntax.
 

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