On Wed, 3 May 2000, John N S Gill wrote: > Following works in bash: > > i=0 > while [ $i -lt 256 ]; do > echo $i > i=$(( $i + 1 )) > done Whoops - sure makes my concatenating variables thing look every bit as bad as it is. But of course this won't work in sh (ssh! - don't mention expr - anyway, thing of the overhead of all those expr calls :-) ) Regards, Niall