Yes, manpage says while list1; do list2; done where list is sequence of pipelines ... It gets complicated pretty quick. :-) -- William On Sunday, July 3, 2016 10:16 PM, Alan J Rosenthal <flaps at 56789.ca> wrote: > i=$1 > while echo $i; i=`expr $i + 1`; test $i -lt 5 > do > : > done