Shell script “for” loop syntax

Question

I have gotten the following to work:

for i in {2..10}
do
    echo \"output: $i\"
done

It produces a bunch of lines of output: 2

Answer 1

Here it worked on Mac OS X.

It includes the example of a BSD date, how to increment and decrement the date also:

for ((i=28; i>=6 ; i--));
do
    dat=`date -v-${i}d -j "+%Y%m%d"` 
    echo $dat
done