Below is the simple bash script which show the way of incrementing the for loop by the value of "2" on each iteration:
#!/bin/bash
for i in {1..10..2}
do
echo $i
done
=== Output ====
1
3
5
7
9
for i in {1..10..2}
do
echo $i
done
=== Output ====
1
3
5
7
9
source:http://linuxpoison.blogspot.com/2012/05/135781677511298.html