Question

I want to create a for loop in bash that runs from 1 to a number stored in a variable in bash. I have tried doing what the answer to this question tells, but it produces this error:

Syntax error: Bad for loop variable

My OS is Ubuntu 12.04 and the code looks like this:

#!/bin/bash
TOP=10
for ((i=1; i<=$TOP; i++))
do
    echo $i
done

What does this error message mean? Here is an output image:

Answer 1

You are running the script with sh, not bash.
Try:

bash split_history_file_test.sh