Please, gimme a advice how to correctly use loop "for i in `seq 1 10`" for Mac OS X, echo $SHELL->/bin/bash, because when I write simple strip: for i in `seq 1 10`;do echo $i;done it outputs -bash: seq: command...

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Hi i am trying to comapre numbers for the biggest among double type of numbers. For example: 0.254, 0.255, 0.564, 0.984, 0.556, 0.6566, and 0.5666. I'm using the following script code: if [ $max -lt $i ] if [ "$max...

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I've been looking at your script to count executable binaries in the book Wicked Cool Shell Scripts and I think that there's a problem in the script. Specifically, what happens if I have a directory in my PATH more than...

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