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Loop though a specific shell command

I would like to check all accounts that they do have access to a server partition for how much budget they have consumed. The command to do that is the following:

accuse -u "accountName0040"

There are in total 30 accounts and they all follow the same naming with different indexing. I would like to loop through all these accounts run this command and extract the outcome. How can I do that thing with shell script?

My idea is to do something like:

#!/bin/bash
while #"a button is pressed"
COUNTER = 40
do
    accuse -u "accountName"COUNTER
    echo # the outcome of the command
    COUNTER=$((COUNTER+1))
done
Solution

  • You could use seq -f to generate the list of account identifiers:

    #!/bin/bash
START=40

for aid in `seq -f "accountName%04g" $START $(($START + 29))`
do
  accuse -u $aid
done