[petsc-dev] do syntax

[Satish Balay]

On Tue, 2 Mar 2010, Jed Brown wrote:

> On Tue, 2 Mar 2010 07:32:16 -0600, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> > 
> > >>> $ for i in {1..5}; do
> > >>>> echo $i
> > >>>> done
> > >>> {1..5}
> > 
> > 
> > This notation does not appear to be portable to sh, so we've had to  
> > change it back to listing 1 2  etc.
> 
> "seq" is more common than bash
> 
>   for i in `seq 1 5`; do
> 
> but still not available everywhere.

yes - seq is not available on freebsd [so we have to use "for i in 1 2 3 4 5; do"

>  On this note, I see the use of
> $[expr] which is definitely less portable than $((expr)), but neither of
> which are mandated.  I suppose the arithmetic could be done with "bc",
> which at least is part of POSIX.  Or with python -c ...

count=`expr $count + 1` works portably [there is already some code
using this notation] - so I just pushed this fix..

Satish

> 
> Jed
>