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davep

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Registered: 29 Apr 2009

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How to translate MS-DOS for loop to Powershell

I apologize for the noob question:  How would I translate something like this to powershell?

for /l %X in (1,1,6) do ...

I see from get-help foreach -examples that I can create an array and then process each item, but how to do it with just signifying "start, step,end" like MS-DOS?

PS C:\> 1,2,3,4,5,6 | foreach-object -process {$_*2}
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Simon Sheppard

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Registered: 27 Aug 2005

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Re: How to translate MS-DOS for loop to Powershell

use the range operator
http://ss64.com/ps/syntax-arrays.html

PS C:\> 1,2,3,(5..9) | foreach-object -process {$_*2}

davep

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Registered: 29 Apr 2009

Posts: 2

Re: How to translate MS-DOS for loop to Powershell

Ah, yes.  Thank you.  I also just found the range operator in "get-help array"  Thanks again!