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Re:PG's essays, ranked "Google-style" by slug on Thursday December 16, 2010 @08:34PM (#2014716)
A small tip for the for loops:

  for n in {9..0}; do echo $n ; done
or

  for n in $(seq 9 -1 0); do echo $n ; done
Re:PG's essays, ranked "Google-style" by RiderOfGiraffes on Friday December 17, 2010 @08:29AM (#2016116)
Cool - thanks. I did actually know that, but I never got around to changing it to the more efficient version, and it's nice to be reminded.