Subject: Re: RFC seq(1) command
To: Brian Ginsbach <ginsbach@NetBSD.org>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 01/12/2005 09:05:18
Brian Ginsbach <ginsbach@NetBSD.org> writes:
> Hmm, in some ways jot does too much! The command line syntax is
> different. I think for this reason alone it is probably easier to
> have a different command. Now, I suppose that seq could be a shell
> script wrapper around jot. Some additional functionality would
> need to be added to jot; the equal width option. Still this would
> be even less bug for bug compatible with other existing implementations
> of seq. I wrote the current C version before I knew about jot.
>
> There are 3rd party tools/scripts that expect seq not jot.
What OSes include seq at the moment?
Perry