[LUG]trivial shell script - reinvented 16 years later

[rds_met <dcglug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

# is same as                                                                        
# ~/Dropbox/files_ma/computing/shell_script/gen_numbers.sh                          
# of 070604                                                                         

cnt=0
while [ $cnt -lt 38 ]
do
    let cnt=cnt+1
    echo $cnt
    touch ${cnt}__.txt
done

Creates 38 files in numbered name order.

“gen_numbers.sh” is
# 04 June 2007                                                                      
# "i=0" unnecessary - is default assumption                                         
# emacs - use with "C-u M-!" to put into buffer                                     
i=0; while [ $i -lt 33 ]; do let i=i+1; echo $i; done

No idea what I was doing on 04 June 2007

I was working in a steel fabrications company in Camberwell, London - which would 
have made a good “sit-com”.  Half the people tendered their resignation by punched 
the boss’s lights out, etc.  You’d have thought he’d get averse to coming-around on 
his back on the floor, but no...
So no idea what the programming connection was.

Message to younger ones - the durability of unix methodology; durability of your 
files; etc.
Work hard and the method will go forward with you.
You can even “shell-script” some image processing.
eg. I can screen-grab my Finite Element Analysis program output (it runs on Windows) 
on trim-out just the visual display part with “imagemagick” doing the same crop on 
each image.
Run the script, look through your images and compose the engineering analysis story 
direcdting all human effort to the engineering subject.

Best wishes,
Rich Smith
                                                                                     
                                                                                     
                                                                                     
                                                                            
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