On: Hidden gems of moreutils

[o11c]

Or if you need dynamic arguments, you probably want:

    N=9; for ((i=0; i<=N; ++i)); do echo "$i"; done

[andrewshadura → o11c]

Why use this form of for when you can just use seq and it works in any shell including fish?

[o11c → andrewshadura]

Because capturing the output of `seq` requires spawning a whole separate process (significant for small sequences) and shoving all the data into a single buffer (significant for large sequences) rather than working incrementally.