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[Ben Scott]

On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Alan Johnson <alan at datdec.com> wrote:
>>   As a halfway point, one can also do this:
>>
>>         for v in n s; do for h in e w; do for x in {1..100}; do for y in
>> {1..100}; do echo http://imgs.xkcd.com/clickdrag/$y$v$x$h.png; done;
>> done; done; done > urls
>>
>> to use a for loop without needing the seq external command.
>
> Nice!  And more readable than either your one liner or my use of seq.

  To each their own.  :)  Personally I find concise expressions more
readable.  :)

  I suspect it may be a question of familiarity.  I use brace
expansion *all the time*.  It's very handy for manipulating groups of
files with similar names.  So the expression

	http://imgs.xkcd.com/clickdrag/{1..256}{n,s}{1..256}{e,w}.png

is just as readable to me as the expression

	http://imgs.xkcd.com/clickdrag/$y$v$x$h.png

, but the latter also requires me to figure out where the variables
are coming from.

>>   What is this "real world" of which you speak, and where may I
>> download it from?  ;-)
>
> It's on the Internet.  Just download the whole thing and grep it.

  We're gonna need a bigger boat^W hard drive.

-- Ben