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=={{header|UNIX Shell}}==
{{works with|Bourne Again SHell}}
<lang bash>recurse()
{
# since the example runs slowly, the following
# if-elif avoid unuseful output; the elif was
# added after a first run ended with a segmentation
# fault after printing "10000"
if [[ $(($1 % 5000)) -eq 0 ]]; then
echo $1;
elif [[ $1 -gt 10000 ]]; then
echo $1
fi
recurse $(($1 + 1))
}
recurse 0</lang>
The Bash reference manual says <cite>No limit is placed on the number of recursive calls</cite>, nonetheless a segmentation fault occurs at 13777 (Bash v3.2.19 on 32bit GNU/Linux)
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