How do I iterate over a range of numbers defined by variables in Bash?

Question

How do I iterate over a range of numbers in Bash when the range is given by a variable?

I know I can do this (called \"sequence expression\" in the Bash documentatio

Answer 1

I know this question is about bash, but - just for the record - ksh93 is smarter and implements it as expected:

$ ksh -c 'i=5; for x in {1..$i}; do echo "$x"; done'
1
2
3
4
5
$ ksh -c 'echo $KSH_VERSION'
Version JM 93u+ 2012-02-29

$ bash -c 'i=5; for x in {1..$i}; do echo "$x"; done'
{1..5}