[tpop3d-discuss]tpop unable to handle load

[Richard Stockton]

At 06:13 PM 9/8/2004, Chris Lightfoot wrote:
> > It appears that "seq" is supposed to be a builtin command in bash2,
> > but mine doesn't seem to have it. [sigh]  Any substitute?
>
>-- don't think so -- here it's part of GNU shellutils.
>
>     `perl -e 'print "$_\n" foreach (1 .. 101);'`
>
>is a workable substitute.
>
>Alternatively
>
>     i=0
>     while [ i -lt 101 ] ; do
>         ... &
>         i=$[ $i + 1 ]
>     done

I keep trying, but to no avail...

bash-2.05b# i=0
bash-2.05b# while [ i -lt 101 ] ; do
 > /usr/local/bin/ncat localhost 110 &
 > i=$[ $i + 1 ]
 > done
bash: [: i: integer expression expected


I must admit that I use tcsh, not bash, so maybe that's my problem.
However, I am pretty good in perl, and I can't make that one work
either. [sigh]

Apparently I am unable to run this diagnostic.  Any other ideas?
TIA again.