[wellylug] a bit of data bashing

[Christian Arndt]

Hi,

On 03/24/2015 02:15 PM, Olly Betts wrote:
> Although this works, be aware that it will open and close "filname.txt"
> for every iteration of the loop - if you're looping a lot, that can add
> up.  Better to just redirect output for the whole for loop instead:
> 
>     $ for i in {1..10}; do echo file00000$i.whatever ;done > filname.txt

Very good point!

Furthermore backticks `` are deprecated and should be replaced by using
$() instead. So probably

    for file in $(seq -f 'file%06g.whatever' 1 19)
    do
        echo $file
    done > filename.txt

is the best mixture of all solutions. :)

Cheers!

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