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Re: [Help-bash] deallocation of brace expanded variable
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Greg Wooledge |
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Re: [Help-bash] deallocation of brace expanded variable |
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Thu, 11 Sep 2014 11:50:00 -0400 |
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On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 04:49:58PM +0200, Sebastian Eiser wrote:
> for i in {1..10000000}; do echo -n; done
Chet has already addressed the question from his point of view, but here
is how this code should have been written:
for ((i=1; i<=10000000; i++)); do :; done
Don't waste memory by generating several hundred megabytes of string data
in the first place. It's not necessary.