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Old 02-20-2008
creating sequence numbers in unix

Hi,

Is there a way to create sequence numbers in unix

i have a set of batches(which contain records) and i want to assign a number to every batch. how can i do that?
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Old 02-20-2008
Question sequence numbering with a file

One way would be to have the next sequence number in a file.

seqnmlog="/tmp/my_next_num"
next=$(cat "$seqnmlog")
((next=next+1))
echo "$next" > "$seqnmlog"

then do whatever
 
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