Bash Shell Script that every execution will increment 25 .txt files

Question

I'm just a newbie in Bash Scripting and was wondering to do a simple script that will create 25 .txt file in every execution of the shell script. But i think i'm lost because when i execute the shell script 2nd it does not create another 25 .txt file. Please help me.

#!/bin/bash
name="file"
for i in {1..25}
do echo $SORT > $name$i.txt
((i+25))
echo $SORT > $name$i.txt
done;

Answer 1

If you want to create 25 text files on each execution, those filenames will need to be randomized, otherwise on each execution they will be overwritten.

#!/bin/bash
for i in {1..25}
do 
  touch $RANDOM.tmp
done

If you wanted to make them sequential, your script will need an external file to save its state between executions:

#!/bin/bash
STATUS_FILE=last.txt
if [ -f "$STATUS_FILE" ]; then
  num=$(cat $STATUS_FILE)
fi

for i in {1..25}
do
  fn=$(expr $num + $i)
  touch $fn.txt
done

echo $fn > $STATUS_FILE

On the first iteration it will create 1.txt ... 25.txt. On the iteration after that, it will generate 26.txt .. 50.txt, and so on.

To restart, just rm last.txt.