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Hi Hauke, for my case it seems that the trick was more on putting an escape on the dollar ... "ls \$((200 + \$i )).gnu | wc -l" works as the variables are not evaluated in CLI but are then in the loop. The loop, as a matter of fact does not require any special astuce with quoting. Escaping is the key, IMHO. Anyways, thanks for your input!

Rho Phi
– Rho Phi

2015-01-15 21:41:56 +00:00
Commented Jan 15, 2015 at 21:41
@RobertoFranceschini I was wrong about the quoting requirements but you need eval for the pipeline to work.

Hauke Laging
– Hauke Laging

2015-01-15 22:06:17 +00:00
Commented Jan 15, 2015 at 22:06

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