Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 21:30:43 -0500 From: "Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> To: "Corey Snow" <corey@snowpoint.com>, "Marty Landman" <marty@face2interface.com> Cc: "FreeBSD-Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: How do I repeat a command N times? Message-ID: <00a801c227b9$cad22d40$1cec910c@fbccarthage.com> References: <00fd01c2277f$e67eba70$0801a8c0@customfilmeffects.com> <3D2B3074.9426.941E460@localhost>
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So simple. On my TRS-80 I just: 10 FOR X=1 TO 607 20 30 PRINT 40 50 PRINT "Can we stop this thread before someone submits a SNOBOL script?" 60 70 PRINT 80 90 NEXT X 100 110 END ;-) KDK ----- Original Message ----- From: "Corey Snow" <corey@snowpoint.com> To: "Marty Landman" <marty@face2interface.com> Cc: "FreeBSD-Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 8:50 PM Subject: Re: How do I repeat a command N times? > On 9 Jul 2002, at 16:25, Marty Landman wrote: > > > At 12:36 PM 7/9/02 -0700, David Smithson wrote: > > > > builtin... "repeat 10 date" > > > > > >This is -- by far -- the simplest solution and satisfies my particular need. > > > > David, imagine the blizzard of answers if you'd asked for the most > > complicated way to do this? :) > > Sniff, sniff- that a contest I smell? ;) > > I couldn't do it, but I'd be happy to judge it. Be like the "obfuscated C" contest ;) > > Rules would have to be something like- single shell command or set of > them, executable by typing at the command prompt as a single command > (ie, only have to hit enter once), but no scripts/compiled code, etc. > > Corey Snow > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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