Help with a simple loop command!

Tags

shell scripts

Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Help with a simple loop command!

05-18-2007

Registered User

10, 0

Join Date: Feb 2007

Last Activity: 7 July 2008, 10:37 AM EDT

Posts: 10

Thanks Given: 0

Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts

shell_life, how can I send the output of the loop to a new file?

Thanks a lot!

dfs

View Public Profile for dfs

Find all posts by dfs

05-18-2007

Registered User

1,714, 63

Join Date: Apr 2004

Last Activity: 15 May 2020, 11:27 AM EDT

Location: Bordeaux, France

Posts: 1,714

Thanks Given: 2

Thanked 63 Times in 59 Posts

Quote:

shell_life, how can I send the output of the loop to a new file?

Code:

typeset -i cnt=0
while [ ${cnt} -lt 50 ]
do
  echo ${dtm}
  cnt=$cnt+1
done > outfile

Jean-Pierre.

aigles

View Public Profile for aigles

Find all posts by aigles

Previous Thread | Next Thread

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Simple loop using for

Dear experts, I am writing a bash script. At some point of the program I need to have 'for' loop. For simplicity I tried with some other simple code. The format of the loop is given below. k=51 m=55 for j in {$k..$m};do w=$(($j+2)) z=$(($j+9)) echo "$w, $z" done But my...

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

a simple loop

Does any body can help me with a loop in this example? if then if then runner=$(grep "$1" "$2") runne=$(grep "$1" "$3") run=$(grep "$1" "$4") fi fi # # Message on screen...

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Simple while-loop problem

Maybe because its Friday, but I can't get a simple while loop to work! #!bin/bash i=0 while do echo "Hello" ((i++)) done

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Simple loop

I need to chmod a bunch of files with a specific extension in one directory. If I understand correctly first I would run ls command like this ls -R | grep .mp3 > /tmp/list once I have the output file I should be able to run a loop to chmod all the files in the list created. This is where...

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Simple using For loop

Hi expert, I'm using csh Code: #!/bin/csh set x = 0 set number = `awk '{array=$0} END {print array;}'` i want to use for loop to store data to $number repeatly untill x = 23 How to use c shell for loop?

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

A simple (?) loop

I have what I believe is a simple programming question. I have a text file that looks like: mol 1 G:\stereo01.hin block text ... ... ... endmol 1 However, I would like a file that repeats this entire block of text several times over. The lines of text in the middle remain the same for each...

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

simple while loop

i have a script called file2 #!/bin/ksh i=0 while do echo $i >> result.txt i=`expr $i + 1` done echo "***********************" >> result -------------------------------------------------------------------

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

simple for loop

i have the following process running in background: when i give "ps -lef" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ user2 user1 user1 user3 user1 user4 user5 user4 user3 user4 user2 user1 user1 user3 user1 user4

9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Simple loop query

Hi All Just started with shell scripts and am stumped by, what is to most of you no doubt, a simple issue. All I'm trying to do is prompt a user for input and writing to a log file. If the user types the word 'stop', then the program should halt. If the word typed is 'clear', then the log file...

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

a simple while loop

Hallo everyone I might just be being dumb, but I am using the BASH shell and cannot get the following script to work: x=0 while do echo $x x=�echo "$x + 1" | bc� done Can anybody help me out. I am just get a repeating output saying: bc: command not found 0 + 1: command not...

Shell Programming and Scripting