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thomas · 18 March 2023, 10:13

You could walk through the alphabet like this:

Code:

set num 1

lab loop

	set letter `echo "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ" first $num len 1`

	echo ${letter}

	set num `eval $num + 1`
if val $num not gt 26
	skip back loop
endif

But IMHO this is beyond the usefulness of a shell script. You should have a look at ARexx, that's much more of a programming language.

18 March 2023, 10:13	#2
thomas Registered User Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Germany Posts: 6,985	You could walk through the alphabet like this: Code: set num 1 lab loop set letter `echo "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ" first $num len 1` echo ${letter} set num `eval $num + 1` if val $num not gt 26 skip back loop endif But IMHO this is beyond the usefulness of a shell script. You should have a look at ARexx, that's much more of a programming language.