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From: "Joao Victor A. Di Stasi" <jvictor_rj@yahoo.com.br>
Subject: Re: bash question
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 22:07:02 -0300
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/usr/bin/seq 1 2 10
works fine

Scott@Charter wrote:

>I can't get this bash script to work.  It's suppose to print all odd numbers
>from 1 to 10.
>
>#!/usr/bin/bash
>
>LIMIT=10
>a=1
>
>while [ "$a" -le $LIMIT ]
>do
>  if [ "$a" -eq $(1 3 5 7 9) ]     <---------Something not right here.
>    then
>      echo -n "$a "
>    fi
>
>echo
>
>let "a+=1"
>done
>echo; echo
>exit 0
>
>
>Can anyone figure out what I am doing wrong?  Can I also see the same thing
>written in Perl?
>
>Thanks for your help.
>
>
>
>Scott D. Smallsreed
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