On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 08:48:32AM -0800, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> > 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.

or entirely within the shell process:

    set - x
    while
	PATCH=$#
	set - x 4*
	[ $PATCH -le 270 ]
    do
	...
    done

Which is true bourbe shell...

	David

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