[ILUG] generating a list of numbers

Kenn Humborg kenn at bluetree.ie
Wed Apr 19 11:03:30 IST 2000


> > On Tue, Apr 18, 2000 at 10:53:28PM +0100, Kenn Humborg wrote:
> > 
> > > Is there a handy shellutil or textutil that will generate a list
> > > of numbers?  E.g. 
> No need for perl, try:
> 
> seq 10

Perfect.  I _knew_ there would be one in the GNU 
shell or text utils somewhere!  It's even in the
Cygwin32 ports as well.

Thanks for the other suggestions, but it seems a bit
overkill-ish to crank up a whole perl interpreter just
to make a list of numbers.  

Later,
Kenn






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