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From: tartifola@gmail.com
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: generate series of strings
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 15:42:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100709154246.2f2fe276.tartifola@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikjaSGkBzR_aWvhYfFL418ml_x-hbg4qBrzg88w@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, 9 Jul 2010 15:36:00 +0200
Guillaume Brunerie <guillaume.brunerie@gmail.com> wrote:

> 2010/7/9 <tartifola@gmail.com>
> 
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> > is there a way to obtain from the command line a series of strings like
> >
> > (1:3) (4:6) (7:9)...
> >
> > always with the same increment. I'm playing with 'seq' and 'sed' but
> > perhaps it's not the best approach.
> > Thanks,
> > A.
> >
> 
> Hi,
> You can use a for-loop :
> 
> for (( i = 0; i < 5; i++ ))
> do
>     echo -n "($(( 3 * i + 1 )):$(( 3 * i + 3))) "
> done

Thanks for your help, it works perfectly. Just a curiosity, any possible solution without a
loop for? 


  reply	other threads:[~2010-07-09 13:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-09 13:27 tartifola
2010-07-09 13:36 ` Guillaume Brunerie
2010-07-09 13:42   ` tartifola [this message]
2010-07-09 14:05     ` Joke de Buhr
2010-07-09 20:26     ` Jérémie Roquet
2010-07-10 17:29       ` Bart Schaefer
2010-07-10 17:42         ` Jérémie Roquet

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