> the simplest solution would be to name them all in `for` statement..
>
>   for PATCH in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 .. .. .. 270; do
>
> not nice but this will work everywhere without any additional utilities.

I agree that would be the easiest.

You could also use awk to print a series of numbers. You could also do it
with sed, but I have no clue how :)

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://bsd.reedmedia.net/