for i in(Solved)

[viking777]

What on earth does it mean!!!!

I guess it is like one of these secret things "I could tell you but I would have to kill you" , like asking Barak Obama what the code is for the nuclear launch triggers, except even more heavily protected!

I am pretty good at google searching, I can even interpret 'man' pages sometimes (not often I grant you), but never have I found any explanation of this secret code.

If you insist that only 12 years of Linux usage is not enough to be granted access to this privileged piece of information then I guess I will have to carry on without it, but if you feel like becoming a 'whistle blower' and can actually impart its meaning to me I would definitely like to know. I don't suppose it will change my life, but it does bug me that every time I see it in some script somewhere I don't have a clue what is means and seem unable to find out.

[rhlegion]

Try going here: http://www.java-samples.com/showtutoria ... ialid=1349

[zerozero]

if you could read portuguese and i could understand what's written there

[GeneC]

...........I guess it is like one of these secret things "I could tell you but I would have to kill you" , like asking Barak Obama what the code is for the nuclear launch triggers, except even more heavily protected!.........

Viking

I just googled the nuclear lauch code.
Its

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gjpewput9tu89tjgp298tug2t590y-5yu2]=kigwtkjptru9-y35hi0yt24

Dont tell anybody...

by zerozero on Thu Aug 09, 2012 1:51 pm

if you could read portuguese and i could understand what's written there

Meu português não é muito bom esses dias....

[zerozero]

Meu português não é muito bom esses dias....

[viking777]

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I just googled the nuclear lauch code.
Its

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gjpewput9tu89tjgp298tug2t590y-5yu2]=kigwtkjptru9-y35hi0yt24

Ah! Thanks Gene, I was typing 23 at the end.

You have all got 15 minutes left to live

[Habitual]

Am I to take this subject seriously/literally?

"This loop allows for specification of a list of values. A list of commands is executed for each value in the list."
The for loop is a little bit different from other programming languages. Basically, it let's you iterate over a series of 'words' within a string.
short and simple example:

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for i in cat dog parrot ; do echo $i ; done

The "i" in "for i" becomes $i which in this case holds 1 record each for "cat dog parrot"

the "for i" could very well be "anything" (with reservations, NOTE you armchair forum quarterbacks)

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for animal in cat dog parrot ; do echo $animal ; done
for fruit in apples pears bananas ; do echo $fruit ; done

Surely, you can see the relationship now?

HTH.

[BrianD]

"for i in" is part of a programming phrase that expects a set list to follow, followed by ("do" and ) an execution block. each set member is iteratively assigned to the temporary variable i, then the execution block is performed (wherein, typically, the value assigned to i is used in some fashion).

for i in (*.jpg) do jpgresize %i

in the above pseudo-code statement, we're using the filesystem to return a list of filenames matching the (*.jpg) filespec. for each filename in the resulting list, it will run the (completely made-up by me) program 'jpgresize' and pass the filename from the list as a parameter to that program.

[Habitual]

...the (completely made-up by me) program 'jpgresize' ...

ya know I had to...
Co-inky Dink?

[rhlegion]

if you could read portuguese and i could understand what's written there

wah?? the page was in perfect english when i load it?????

[viking777]

I assure you the thread was meant to be serious (although it did go a bit 'off topic' at one stage ), I have seen this phrase in scripts all over the place and could NEVER find an explanation of what it meant written anywhere, but with the help of the answers here I am a little wiser.

You may have guessed - I don't really do scripting (and certainly don't do coding).

Thanks to all.

[Habitual]

I assumed a Level 11 would know what a "for i" loop construct was all about.

I guess that's my Bad.

[viking777]

Oh definitely your mistake Habitual.

If I had posted "Welcome to the Mint Forums" to 3500 newly joined members I would still be at level 11. So it doesn't mean much does it?