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egrep ^1[\ ] name.1 | wc -l
egrep -v ^1[\ ] name.1 > name.2

So, I'd then want this to happen all over again, but with all the
numbers in the above incremented:

egrep ^2[\ ] name.2 | wc -l
egrep -v ^2[\ ] name.2 > name.3

There must be a way of getting a loop to do this automatically.  Could
someone mail me with ideas?
Thanks for your help,
Jeremy

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Quote:>Hi - can anyone help me with this problem?  What I want to do, is to
>run the following egrep commands repeatedly, whilst incrementing a
>variable in the command line:

>egrep ^1[\ ] name.1 | wc -l
>egrep -v ^1[\ ] name.1 > name.2

>So, I'd then want this to happen all over again, but with all the
>numbers in the above incremented:

>egrep ^2[\ ] name.2 | wc -l
>egrep -v ^2[\ ] name.2 > name.3

>There must be a way of getting a loop to do this automatically.  Could
>someone mail me with ideas?

i=1
max=9
while [ $i -lt $max ]
do
        j=`expr $i + 1`         # j = i + 1

        egrep ^${i}[\ ] name.${i} | wc -l
        egrep -v ^${i}[\ ] name.${i} > name.${j}

        i=$j
done
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