Re: combinations of 4

From: Sebastian Jaenicke (tsa@jaenicke.org)
Date: Sun Apr 07 2002 - 16:05:58 EDT


Hi,

On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 05:01:59PM -0800, KF wrote:
> I am in the process of archiving power pc instructions that do not
> contain null... I have come to the decision that if I could generate a
> list of all possible unique 4 char combinations for a given list of
> alpha numeric chars then I could quickly sort the rest out in gdb...
>
> My question is does anyone know how to programatically do this? Do i
> need to make use of bit shifting or something? I need only a program to
> print the list to the screen or something simple. Example output would
> be ...
>
> AAAA
> BBBBB
> ....
> AAAB
> AAAC
> ...
> and so on but ONLY unique posibilities.

#!/bin/bash

alphabet="a b c d e f"

for a in $alphabet; do
  for b in $alphabet; do
    for c in $alphabet; do
      for d in $alphabet; do
        echo $a$b$c$d;
      done
    done
  done
done

Should give you the desired output.

Regards,

Sebastian

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