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Additional feature for the seq command
From: |
Axel Liljencrantz |
Subject: |
Additional feature for the seq command |
Date: |
Thu, 28 Apr 2005 18:41:45 +0200 (MEST) |
Hello!
It would be nice if one could use the seq command to specify a
sequence of characters, as well as a sequence of numbers.
Example:
Writing
seq a 3 h
should output
a
d
g
I have modified seq to work this way. My updated seq uses isalpha to
check if the user requested a character sequence, otherwise it will
use behave exactly like regular seq. This new seq can handle upper
case and lower case, and validates all arguments.
I have included a diff for the files src/seq.c and doc/coreutils.text
to update both the sourcecode and the documentation for seq. The
update also contains a small spelling correction for the
documentation (Synopses->Synopsis).
This diff is for coreutils 5.0.
--
Axel Liljencrantz
seq.c.diff
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coreutils.text.diff
Description: Text document