Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi!
I'm having problems to get this simple script done:
I need to insert 50 lines with the value from the variable dtm=`date +"%d"` into a new file, how do I do that using the "for" or "while" loop commands ? Is there any other command I can use to do that ? I'm new to shell scripting, as you can see

the file will look like:
17
17
17
17
...

Thanks for the help!

You don't say which shell you are using. This is bash...

Code:

for ((i=0;i<50;i++)); do echo $dtm; done > newfile

Ygor, thanks a lot! I forgot how to use the "for...do" command, thanks again!

I'm using bash

Ygor, any idea in how to do that using korn shell ?

Thanks!

DFS,
See if this works for you:

Code:

typeset -i cnt=0
while [ ${cnt} -le 50 ]
do
  echo ${cnt}
  cnt=$cnt+1
done

it works! how can I do it to work with my variable ?

Thanks!

Code:

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