[clue-tech] increment weather

[Dennis J Perkins]

David L. Willson wrote:
> I have a loop-counter that I want to increment from within the loop, having found that the next two items in the array I'm iterating through belong to me.  How can I do that?
>
> This illustrates my problem:
>
> for i in $(seq 10)
> do
>    echo $i
>    if [ $i -eq 4 ]
>    then
>       echo -n "i is $i.  next two are: "
>       i=$(($i+1))
>       echo -n "$i and "
>       i=$(($i+1))
>       echo "$i."
>    fi
> done
>
> Notice that the outer loop goes right back to the i that it knows and loves, ignoring my in-loop increments.
>
> David L. Willson
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>   
Try using this:  for (( i = 0; i < 10; i++ ))
do

done

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