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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Bad substitution issues.. but why? Post 302980269 by wisecracker on Thursday 25th of August 2016 02:32:32 PM
Old 08-25-2016
I suspect the for loop will not do as expected either...

for i in {1..${NUMBER_OF_FILES}}

Example, OSX 10.7.5, default bash terminal...
Code:
#!/bin/bash
# for_loop.sh
loop=10
for num in {1..${loop}}
do
	echo "$num"
done

Results:-
Code:
Last login: Thu Aug 25 19:29:16 on ttys000
AMIGA:barrywalker~> bash --version
GNU bash, version 3.2.48(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin11)
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
AMIGA:barrywalker~> 
AMIGA:barrywalker~> cd Desktop/Code/Shell
AMIGA:barrywalker~/Desktop/Code/Shell> chmod 755 for_loop.sh
AMIGA:barrywalker~/Desktop/Code/Shell> ./for_loop.sh
{1..10}
AMIGA:barrywalker~/Desktop/Code/Shell> _

 

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NAME
svm-grid - a parameter selection tool for LIBSVM SYNOPSIS
svm-grid [-log2c begin,end,step ] [ -log2g begin,end,step ] [ -v fold ] [ -svmtrain pathname ] [ -gnuplot pathname ] [ -out pathname ] [ -png pathname ] [ additional_parameters_for_svm-train ] dataset DESCRIPTION
grid.py is a parameter selection tool for C-SVM classification using the RBF (radial basis function) kernel. It uses cross validation (CV) technique to estimate the accuracy of each parameter combination in the specified range and helps you to decide the best parameters for your problem. FILES
See svm-train(1) for the format of dataset EXAMPLES
svm-grid -log2c -5,5,1 -log2g -4,0,1 -v 5 -m 300 heart_scale BUGS
Please report bugs to the Debian BTS. AUTHOR
Chih-Chung Chang, Chih-Jen Lin <cjlin@csie.ntu.edu.tw>, Chen-Tse Tsai <ctse.tsai@gmail.com> (packaging) SEE ALSO
svm-train(1), svm-predict(1) Linux DEC 2009 svm-grid(1)
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