Re: the portability of seq(1) (was: Idea: jobs(1) -i to print only :%ID:s)

[Greg Wooledge]

On Fri, Nov 10, 2023 at 01:09:29PM -0600, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> At 2023-11-10T10:54:52-0800, Eric Pruitt wrote:
> > From _seq(1)_ on FreeBSD:
> > 
> > > The seq command first appeared in Version 8 AT&T UNIX. A seq command
> > > appeared in NetBSD 3.0, and was ported to FreeBSD 9.0. This command
                  ^^^^^^^^^^
> > > was based on the command of the same name in Plan 9 from Bell Labs
> > > and the GNU core utilities. The GNU seq command first appeared in
> > > the 1.13 shell utilities release.

> That leaves NetBSD (data point requested), and I stumbled into seq's
> absence when building groff 1.23.0 release candidates for Solaris 10
> (maybe 11 too).

Apparently present in NetBSD 3.0.  Easily confirmed by going to
<http://man.netbsd.org/seq> as well.