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sequence of numbers in a for loop

Terminal - sequence of numbers in a for loop
for f in `jot - 0 50 5` ; do ping -c 1 -m 50 10.0.2.$f ; done
2009-03-23 23:51:18
User: chinkshady
Functions: ping
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sequence of numbers in a for loop

Say you need to ping every 5th IP address on your network .. this will give you a way of doing that.

jot can also do counting ... like

jot 4

1

2

3

4

download from http://oreilly.com/catalog/upt2/examples/#jot or fins athena-jot in rpm format

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You mean just like seq?

seq 4 seq 2 6 seq 2 5 13
Comment by mem 217 weeks and 1 day ago

and pure SHELL,

BASH v3:

for (( num=5; num<51; num+=5 )); do echo $num; done

or BASH v4:

echo {5..50..5}

Why limit yourself to only numbers :P?

echo {A..Z}

and mix'n match:

echo {A..E}{1..3}
Comment by asmoore82 217 weeks ago

Yeah, Came here to ask why would you install (or write) jot when seq and the built-ins both work.... and are pretty standard...

Comment by ozymandias 217 weeks ago

http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/1387/backticks-are-evil

Comment by atoponce 217 weeks ago

This was intended for machines that don't have gnu coreutils installed by default like hpux and solaris

You would need to download and install something anyway in that case

Have only used seq for numbers, but jot also does letters and words

Comment by chinkshady 217 weeks ago

FreeBSD also doesn't have seq but jot.

thanks @chinkshady

Comment by lme 216 weeks and 6 days ago

And of course FreeBSD doesn''t have that messy bash in the base system. ;-)

Comment by lme 216 weeks and 6 days ago

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