Re: for loop question

[Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/03/2014 11:13 PM, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> } ... the test must surely produce an answer of some sort.
>
> The *nix command paradigm is organized around two concepts:
Thanks Bart, that was very deeply informative, it helps me understand 
the bedrock
on which this is all built.  I asked an invalid question. It is not that 
an exit status is or
isn't 'arithmetic', it is that an exit status is not part of a data 
stream.  It is not *what*
it is, but *where* it is that is relevant. I now see that:

    for ((i=1; ! $([ -n "$TLC[i]" ]; echo $?); i++))

... is simple.