[YLUG][OT] alternatives to seq when scripting for loops

[Rachel Cavill]

On 11/17/06, Arthur Clune <arthur at clune.org> wrote:
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> Which shell are you using? sh, csh, ksh, bash etc?
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I'm using Bash.

> http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~jusub/unix-hints-and-hacks/19270026.htm
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I've tried an equivalent bash solution using a while loop and
incrementing instead of a forloop - but I'm having problems with the
fact that I don't want to use integers.  The loop works fine if I set
everything to integer values, but the minute I try to use real values
I'm getting error messages.

I know I'm missing something obvious here, but what is it?
Rachel