[clug] Rosetta code: bash/bourne shell 'loops' example

[Peter Barker]

On Sun, 21 Mar 2010, steve jenkin wrote:

> I didn't follow their instructions :-(
> In this context, the solutions aren't that clumsy...

I think I prefer this - what I think to be pretty idiomatic:

pbarker at eccles:~$ for i in `seq 1 5`; do for j in `seq 1 $i`; do echo -n 
'*'; done; echo; done
*
**
***
****
*****
pbarker at eccles:~$

Or did I miss something?

>> steve

Yours,
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