Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell

> typeset -i i=0
> while [ "$i" -lt 10 ]; do
>    <command>
>    let i=i+1
> done
>
> "((i=i+1))" or "let i+=1" are alternative syntaxes for the 4th line that may
> also work in bash.

in bash you do it like this

#!/bin/bash
i=0
while [ "$i" -lt 10 ]
do
        <command block>
        i=`expr $i + 1`
done

joeri

integer i
for ((i=0; i<10; i++))
do     ...
done

alias integer='typeset -i'