From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 9 12:26: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB68237B401 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 12:25:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from federation.addy.com (addy.com [208.11.142.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9189E43E3B for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 12:23:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jim@federation.addy.com) Received: from localhost (jim@localhost) by federation.addy.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA49600 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 15:22:56 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jim@federation.addy.com) Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 15:22:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Jim Sander Cc: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: How do I repeat a command N times? In-Reply-To: <006801c2276b$f703f1d0$0801a8c0@customfilmeffects.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > My shell is csh Assuming this is really all you're asking for, try this [t]csh builtin... "repeat 10 date" It's not extremely flexible, but it certainly is simple. -=Jim=- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message