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From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>
To: root@isis.dynip.com
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Help About Shell Script
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root@isis.dynip.com wrote:

> in BASIC language terms, but in sh script ?
> 
> for i = 0 to 1000
> 	for j = 0 to 1000
> 		do something using ( current i , current j )
> 
> 		increment j
>  	next
>  	increment i
> next

i=0
while [ $i -le 1000 ]; do
	j=0
	while [ $j -le 1000 ]; do
		## do your stuff here with $i and $j

		j=$(($j+1))
	done
	i=$(($i+1))
done

-- 
Ben Smithurst
ben@scientia.demon.co.uk

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