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Added description of differences between seq and bash brace expansion.

edited Feb 18, 2015 at 18:36

I'd do

for i in `seq 0 2 10`; do echo $i; done

(though of course seq 0 2 10 will produce the same output on its own).

Note that seq allows floating-point numbers (e.g., seq .5 .25 3.5) but bash's brace expansion only allows integers.

I'd do

for i in `seq 0 2 10`; do echo $i; done

(though of course seq 0 2 10 will produce the same output on its own).

I'd do

for i in `seq 0 2 10`; do echo $i; done

(though of course seq 0 2 10 will produce the same output on its own).

Note that seq allows floating-point numbers (e.g., seq .5 .25 3.5) but bash's brace expansion only allows integers.

answered Jun 8, 2009 at 17:35

I'd do

for i in `seq 0 2 10`; do echo $i; done

(though of course seq 0 2 10 will produce the same output on its own).