Help Understanding While Loop

[Jan Grant]

On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Will Maier wrote:

> > count = $(( count + 1 ))
>              ^^^ 
> 
> You're missing something here ;)

Actually, you don't need the leading "$". With it, you'll get variable 
interpolation, which'll normally do the same thing. Once the expression 
has been interpolated, it's evaluated, using the values of any variables 
named in the expression.

That is,

count=1
count=$((count + 1))
will do what Drew intended. I think his problem is elsewhere (the while 
loop is a subshell).

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