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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers String manipulation for sheer speed... Post 302813231 by Don Cragun on Sunday 26th of May 2013 08:52:01 PM
Old 05-26-2013
If you use ksh instead of bash, you can also use the built-in {init..limit..inc} instead of spawning a separate process to evaluate $(seq init inc limit}. I.e.:
Code:
for splicedstring in {0..24575..3}

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let(1)                                                             User Commands                                                            let(1)

NAME
let - shell built-in function to evaluate one or more arithmetic expressions SYNOPSIS
ksh let arg... DESCRIPTION
ksh Each arg is a separate "arithmetic expression" to be evaluated. EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned: 0 The value of the last expression is non-zero. 1 The value of the last expression is zero. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
ksh(1), set(1), typeset(1), attributes(5) SunOS 5.10 15 Apr 1994 let(1)
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