Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a simple csh script that has a simple foreach loop that goes over numbers, from 1 to 10:

foreach n(1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10)
...
end

Now I want to expand the script to work on over a hundred consecutive n values. Obviously, typing all the numbers between 1 to 100 is an unreasonable solution. I think I saw once a way to count with a foreach loop by specifying the range, or something like that. I can't find it now, and when searching forums and google, I can't find a simple solution for that.

Is it possible to make foreach to go over values without explicitly typing them? Specifically, can I use foreach to count from 1 to 100 without entering all the numbers myslef?

Alternatively, I guess I could use a while loop, but at this point I am curious if foreach can do that too.

Thanks for any help.

if you have jot available:

Code:

% foreach n ( `jot 10` )
foreach? echo $n
foreach? end
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10

If jot is not available, perhaps you have seq, which serves a similar function.

I don't have jot apparently (I get jot: Command not found). I may have seq cause the error is gone. which seq gives /usr/bin/seq

I replaced jot with seq in your script, but I am getting:
foreach?: No match.
foreach?: No match.

Am I missing something? I am a fairly beginner so it may be something obvious?

Thanks!

While you're still an beginner, swich shells. See Csh Programming Considered Harmful and Top Ten Reasons not to use the C shell

I don't know, mcbenus. I do not have any experience with any variants of the csh. For reasons why, see pludi's links.

Best of luck,
alister

Can you paste the loop which gave the above error

Code:

i=1
while [ $i -lt 100 ];do
echo $i
i=$(($i+1))
done