This is a breeze in Perl if you have Tie::Cycle installed. You tie a scalar to this class and provide the list of values to cycle through (1 to 9, 0). Then, whenever you access the scalar, the next element in the list is fetched. It becomes as easy as saying "print 'this' 132 times". 'this' cycles through that list and gets reset automatically.
Without this simple but wonderful module, you may try:
Just replace 132 with whatever number you need.
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times
times(1) User Commands times(1)NAME
times - shell built-in function to report time usages of the current shell
SYNOPSIS
sh
times
ksh
times
DESCRIPTION
sh
Print the accumulated user and system times for processes run from the shell.
ksh
Print the accumulated user and system times for the shell and for processes run from the shell.
On this man page, ksh(1) commands that are preceded by one or two * (asterisks) are treated specially in the following ways:
1. Variable assignment lists preceding the command remain in effect when the command completes.
2. I/O redirections are processed after variable assignments.
3. Errors cause a script that contains them to abort.
4. Words, following a command preceded by ** that are in the format of a variable assignment, are expanded with the same rules as a vari-
able assignment. This means that tilde substitution is performed after the = sign and word splitting and file name generation are not
performed.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO ksh(1), sh(1), time(1), attributes(5)SunOS 5.10 15 Apr 1994 times(1)