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Re: CVS commit: src/tests/sbin/resize_ffs



On Wed, 05 Jan 2011, Jeff Rizzo wrote:
> Modified Files:
>       src/tests/sbin/resize_ffs: common.sh
> 
> Log Message:
> Replace uses of 'jot' with 'seq'.  This is primarily to work around
> a qemu-running-on-netbsd problem with FP which causes 'jot' to output
> incorrect sequences  [...]
> As a bonus, however, 'seq' is actually a better fit (the commandline is
> more intuitive) for the way it is used in these tests.

I agree that "jot $(($2-$1+1)) $1" is ugly, but there was no need for
that ugliness; a cleaner way to ask jot to output values from $1 to $2
in steps of 1 is "jot - $1 $2 1".  I have added an example to the jot(1)
man page.

--apb (Alan Barrett)


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