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

Well, as I didn't have the seq command installed on my system (Mac OS X v10.6.1 (Snow Leopard)), I ended up using a while loop instead:

max=5
i=1

while [ $max -gt $i ]
do
    (stuff)
done

*Shrugs* Whatever works.