Question

I need to make a for loop but I am relatively new to shell. I want the equivalent of:

For i = 1 to limit

As it would be in Visual basic, where ‘limit’ is a variable set to how long I want the for loop to go on for.

Answer 1

The POSIX way to do this without an external utility such as seq, is using a while loop:

limit=10
i=0

while [ "$i" -le "$limit" ]; do
   ...
   i=$((i + 1))
done