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Re: SEQ BUG
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: SEQ BUG |
Date: |
Sat, 09 Jun 2007 11:12:55 +0200 |
Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
> Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Pádraig Brady <address@hidden> wrote:
>> ...
>>> Another thing I just noticed. I would expect the precision
>>> of all output in the following command to be to 2 decimal places not 1:
>>> $ seq 0.00 0.01 0.90 | grep "\.[0-9]$"
>>> 0.1
>>> 0.2
>>> 0.3
>>> 0.4
>>> 0.5
>>> 0.6
>>> 0.7
>>> 0.8
>>> 0.9
>>
>> Well, at least with the very latest from coreutils and libc6-2.5-10
>> from Debian unstable, I get what you (and I) would expect:
>>
>> $ seq 0.00 0.01 0.90 | grep '\.[0-9]$'
>> $
>>
>> However, with ubuntu's 2.5-0ubuntu14, I do see the same offending behavior
>> you quote above.
>
> I don't. I get the expected behavior. I compiled on Ubuntu 7.04 with
> libc6 2.5-0ubuntu14. This is on an x86-64 platform; perhaps that's
> the difference? Or perhaps you were using the Ubuntu-supplied seq,
> which is coreutils 5.97?
Hmm. I must have had unusual PATH settings when I did that.
The very latest coreutils tools are normally first in my PATH.
Now I see the desired behavior.
Thanks.
- SEQ BUG, Patrick Amstutz, 2007/06/07
- Re: SEQ BUG, Micah Cowan, 2007/06/07
- Re: SEQ BUG, John Cowan, 2007/06/07
- [PATCH] SEQ BUG, Pádraig Brady, 2007/06/08
- Re: [PATCH] SEQ BUG, Pádraig Brady, 2007/06/08
- Re: [PATCH] SEQ BUG, Andreas Schwab, 2007/06/08
- Re: [PATCH] SEQ BUG, Pádraig Brady, 2007/06/08
- [PATCH] SEQ BUG, Pádraig Brady, 2007/06/13
- Re: [PATCH] SEQ BUG, Paul Eggert, 2007/06/13
- Re: [PATCH] SEQ BUG, Pádraig Brady, 2007/06/13
- Re: [PATCH] SEQ BUG, Pádraig Brady, 2007/06/19
- Re: [PATCH] SEQ BUG, Paul Eggert, 2007/06/19