Re: How to use variable in a range like {a..b}?

[Stephane CHAZELAS]

2010-05-12, 08:20(-04), Greg Wooledge:
[...]
> x=10; i=1; while [ $i -le $x ]; do ...; i=$(($i+1)); done

And

seq 10 | xargs -n1 ...

or:

seq 10 | xargs -I% ... % ...
like:
seq 10 | xargs -I% echo '<%>'

Both of which will work in any shell (provided you have the
seq command).

-- 
Stéphane