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Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2016 23:23:32 -0800
From: Skip Tavakkolian <9nut@9netics.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] How to take a portion of a screenshot
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> * I can=E2=80=99t seem to find a way to have an incrementing loop count=
er in rc shell (best I could do is check the size of a growing list varia=
ble)

most of the time seq(1), hoc(1) and similar tools can help do the job:

fn square {
	echo $1 '*' $1 | hoc
}

for (i in `{seq 1 10}) {
	j =3D `{square $i}
	echo $i^=C2=B2 '=3D' $j
}


> * I couldn=E2=80=99t think of a good way to name the image files so tha=
t they can be sorted into the correct sequence as input to togif

awk printf perhaps?

for (i in (0 10 100)) {
	echo $i
} | awk '{printf "image_%0.3d\n", $0}'