ah this works, I adjusted as follows for IDX in {0..65535}; do echo $IDX >> /home/netflow/etc/0-65535.txt done Thanks for the help was in a bind there. Been a while since I shell scripted.:) On Jun 25, 2014, at 2:02 PM, John G. Heim <jheim@math.wisc.edu> wrote:

for IDX in {0..65535}; do [...] done

On 06/25/14 12:53, Scott Granados wrote:

...

I’m trying to write a small script in bash and it’s not working.

I want to count from 0 to 65535 and put that number, 1 per line in a flat file

I was trying something like this COUNT=0 while [$COUNT -lt 65536] do echo $COUNT >> /home/netflow/etc/0-65535.txt COUNT=`expr $COUNT + 1` done

I keep getting a bash “0 invalid command” Anyone know how to write this expression correctly so it populates the file?

Thanks Scott

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Ah Perl, I didn’t think of that. Good pointer. On Jun 25, 2014, at 2:03 PM, Chris Nestrud <ccn@chrisnestrud.com> wrote:

Can you use perl instead?

perl -E "say $_ for 0..65535" > > /home/netflow/etc/0-65535.txt

On Wed, June 25, 2014 12:53 pm, Scott Granados wrote:

...

I’m trying to write a small script in bash and it’s not working.

I want to count from 0 to 65535 and put that number, 1 per line in a flat file

I was trying something like this COUNT=0 while [$COUNT -lt 65536] do echo $COUNT >> /home/netflow/etc/0-65535.txt COUNT=`expr $COUNT + 1` done

I keep getting a bash “0 invalid command” Anyone know how to write this expression correctly so it populates the file?

Thanks Scott

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