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I'm using a blackbox CLI based on Bash and I'm not entirely sure what stuff I can use.
Brace expansion doesn't work, and with it goes my ability to do loops without listing the arguments explicitly, which is something I was trying to avoid by looping to start with.



for x in {1..5}
do
for y in {a..c}
do
echo $HOME$x$y
done
done


How do I run something like this without brace expansion and without listing the arguments explicitly? Environment variables should also work, that's why I appended a random $HOME to the example.



Please feel free to provide different alternatives (AWK, sed) as I'm not entirely sure what will and what won't work.










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    Do you have access to the jot command?

    – Fox
    2 hours ago






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    So this appears to be not based on Bash based on your description; what makes you think that it is? Is there any further detail available about the system, the shell that's in it, or the tools that are available there?

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I'm using a blackbox CLI based on Bash and I'm not entirely sure what stuff I can use.
Brace expansion doesn't work, and with it goes my ability to do loops without listing the arguments explicitly, which is something I was trying to avoid by looping to start with.



for x in {1..5}
do
for y in {a..c}
do
echo $HOME$x$y
done
done


How do I run something like this without brace expansion and without listing the arguments explicitly? Environment variables should also work, that's why I appended a random $HOME to the example.



Please feel free to provide different alternatives (AWK, sed) as I'm not entirely sure what will and what won't work.










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    Do you have access to the jot command?

    – Fox
    2 hours ago






  • 2





    So this appears to be not based on Bash based on your description; what makes you think that it is? Is there any further detail available about the system, the shell that's in it, or the tools that are available there?

    – Michael Homer
    1 hour ago
















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I'm using a blackbox CLI based on Bash and I'm not entirely sure what stuff I can use.
Brace expansion doesn't work, and with it goes my ability to do loops without listing the arguments explicitly, which is something I was trying to avoid by looping to start with.



for x in {1..5}
do
for y in {a..c}
do
echo $HOME$x$y
done
done


How do I run something like this without brace expansion and without listing the arguments explicitly? Environment variables should also work, that's why I appended a random $HOME to the example.



Please feel free to provide different alternatives (AWK, sed) as I'm not entirely sure what will and what won't work.










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I'm using a blackbox CLI based on Bash and I'm not entirely sure what stuff I can use.
Brace expansion doesn't work, and with it goes my ability to do loops without listing the arguments explicitly, which is something I was trying to avoid by looping to start with.



for x in {1..5}
do
for y in {a..c}
do
echo $HOME$x$y
done
done


How do I run something like this without brace expansion and without listing the arguments explicitly? Environment variables should also work, that's why I appended a random $HOME to the example.



Please feel free to provide different alternatives (AWK, sed) as I'm not entirely sure what will and what won't work.







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  • 1





    Do you have access to the jot command?

    – Fox
    2 hours ago






  • 2





    So this appears to be not based on Bash based on your description; what makes you think that it is? Is there any further detail available about the system, the shell that's in it, or the tools that are available there?

    – Michael Homer
    1 hour ago
















  • 1





    Do you have access to the jot command?

    – Fox
    2 hours ago






  • 2





    So this appears to be not based on Bash based on your description; what makes you think that it is? Is there any further detail available about the system, the shell that's in it, or the tools that are available there?

    – Michael Homer
    1 hour ago










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Do you have access to the jot command?

– Fox
2 hours ago





Do you have access to the jot command?

– Fox
2 hours ago




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So this appears to be not based on Bash based on your description; what makes you think that it is? Is there any further detail available about the system, the shell that's in it, or the tools that are available there?

– Michael Homer
1 hour ago







So this appears to be not based on Bash based on your description; what makes you think that it is? Is there any further detail available about the system, the shell that's in it, or the tools that are available there?

– Michael Homer
1 hour ago












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You'd better use jot as commented. Here is a (not so pretty) awk implementation.



#!/usr/bin/awk -f
BEGIN{
for(i=1;i<5;i++)
for(j=97;j<100;j++)
printf "%s%d%c ",ENVIRON["HOME"],i,j;
print;
}


or (you may also use the -v option of awk to assign shell variables to awk variables)



#!/bin/bash
awk -f /dev/fd/3 3<< EOF
BEGIN{
for(i=1;i<5;i++)
for(j=97;j<100;j++)
printf "$HOME%d%c ",i,j;
print;
}
EOF





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    You'd better use jot as commented. Here is a (not so pretty) awk implementation.



    #!/usr/bin/awk -f
    BEGIN{
    for(i=1;i<5;i++)
    for(j=97;j<100;j++)
    printf "%s%d%c ",ENVIRON["HOME"],i,j;
    print;
    }


    or (you may also use the -v option of awk to assign shell variables to awk variables)



    #!/bin/bash
    awk -f /dev/fd/3 3<< EOF
    BEGIN{
    for(i=1;i<5;i++)
    for(j=97;j<100;j++)
    printf "$HOME%d%c ",i,j;
    print;
    }
    EOF





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      You'd better use jot as commented. Here is a (not so pretty) awk implementation.



      #!/usr/bin/awk -f
      BEGIN{
      for(i=1;i<5;i++)
      for(j=97;j<100;j++)
      printf "%s%d%c ",ENVIRON["HOME"],i,j;
      print;
      }


      or (you may also use the -v option of awk to assign shell variables to awk variables)



      #!/bin/bash
      awk -f /dev/fd/3 3<< EOF
      BEGIN{
      for(i=1;i<5;i++)
      for(j=97;j<100;j++)
      printf "$HOME%d%c ",i,j;
      print;
      }
      EOF





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        You'd better use jot as commented. Here is a (not so pretty) awk implementation.



        #!/usr/bin/awk -f
        BEGIN{
        for(i=1;i<5;i++)
        for(j=97;j<100;j++)
        printf "%s%d%c ",ENVIRON["HOME"],i,j;
        print;
        }


        or (you may also use the -v option of awk to assign shell variables to awk variables)



        #!/bin/bash
        awk -f /dev/fd/3 3<< EOF
        BEGIN{
        for(i=1;i<5;i++)
        for(j=97;j<100;j++)
        printf "$HOME%d%c ",i,j;
        print;
        }
        EOF





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        You'd better use jot as commented. Here is a (not so pretty) awk implementation.



        #!/usr/bin/awk -f
        BEGIN{
        for(i=1;i<5;i++)
        for(j=97;j<100;j++)
        printf "%s%d%c ",ENVIRON["HOME"],i,j;
        print;
        }


        or (you may also use the -v option of awk to assign shell variables to awk variables)



        #!/bin/bash
        awk -f /dev/fd/3 3<< EOF
        BEGIN{
        for(i=1;i<5;i++)
        for(j=97;j<100;j++)
        printf "$HOME%d%c ",i,j;
        print;
        }
        EOF






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