From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail.clark.net ([168.143.0.10]) by hawkwind.utcs.utoronto.ca with SMTP id <24666>; Thu, 1 May 1997 02:47:43 -0400 Received: from explorer2.clark.net (culliton@explorer2.clark.net [168.143.0.5]) by mail.clark.net (8.8.5/8.6.5) with ESMTP id AAA19258; Thu, 1 May 1997 00:02:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Tom Culliton Received: (from culliton@localhost) by explorer2.clark.net (8.8.5/8.7.1) id AAA16372; Thu, 1 May 1997 00:03:12 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 00:03:12 -0400 Message-Id: <199705010403.AAA16372@explorer2.clark.net> To: culliton@clark.net, luyer@ucs.uwa.edu.au Cc: TimTroyR@ionet.net, rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu Subject: Re: 99 bottles in an rc shell script. Good idea, but your awk could be simpler... > for(i in `{awk '{BEGIN{for(i=99;i>0;i--){print i;};exit;}'}) { for (i in `{awk 'BEGIN{for(i=99;i>0;i--)print i}'}) { I still like the version done strictly with builtins myself. ;-)