On Jan 11, 2008, at 5:13 PM, jackster the jackle wrote:

> Xavier Noria wrote:
>> Hmmm, but how is that different from chaging echo $x with your  
>> script?
>> No trying to push that shell loop, just trying to understand the  
>> goal.
>>
>> -- fxn
>
> It's actually not different, I was just looking for another way to  
> do it
> for control purposes.

Oh good.

Off the top of my head a possible approach would be:

    ruby -e '4.times { load "path/to/file" }'

-- fxn