Bourne Shell For i in (seq)

Question

I want to write a loop in Bourne shell which iterates a specific set of numbers. Normally I would use seq:

for i in `seq 1 10 15 20`
   #do stuf         


        

Answer 1

for i in `seq 1 5 20`; do echo $i; done

Result:

5
10
15
20

$ man seq

SEQ(1)                           User Commands                          SEQ(1)

NAME
       seq - print a sequence of numbers

SYNOPSIS
       seq [OPTION]... LAST
       seq [OPTION]... FIRST LAST
       seq [OPTION]... FIRST INCREMENT LAST