I doubt I’m the only one who often ends up typing: for i in 1 2 3 4 … a lot. I got sick and tired of it. Sometimes for the longer ones I’d start python, and use it to generate the sequence for me. It was absurd, so I fixed it.
Just set up the following Python script in /usr/local/bin/range and you’ll be good to go:
#!/usr/bin/env python import sys out = " " if len(sys.argv) < 2 or len(sys.argv) > 4: print "Usage: range [begin] end [[inc]]" elif len(sys.argv) == 2: for i in range(int(sys.argv[1])): out += repr(i) + " " elif len(sys.argv) == 3: for i in range(int(sys.argv[1]), int(sys.argv[2])): out += repr(i) + " " else: for i in range(int(sys.argv[1]), int(sys.argv[2]), int(sys.argv[3])): out += repr(i) + " " print out
(Ugh. WordPress is destroying indents….)
Now you can just do for i in `range 100`; … Yipee!
And yes, this is trivial. I don’t know why it took me so long to decide to do this.