[ale] sequencing the alphabet

[Jim Popovitch]

On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 15:45 -0400, Alex LeDonne wrote:
> In bash:
> 
> for i in {a..z};
>  do echo $i;
> done
> 
> Note that this does the right thing for numbers... {0..20} does what
> you would expect. See "Brace expansion" in your bash manpage.

Cool, that should do it.

> I don't see anything similar in sh. What's the environment requirement?

Bash on Solaris 8/9/10, Linux *, and presumably some AIX in the near
future.

Thx!

-Jim P.