Berkeley CSUA MOTD:Entry 50894
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2008/8/18-21 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:50894 Activity:kinda low
8/18    How long has the command "seq" been around? I just saw it in
        one of my coworkers shell scripts and wish I had known about it
        years ago...
        \_ what does it do?  - bash fan #1
           \_ It prints out a sequence of numbers from FIRST to LAST in
              a specified increment.
           \_ in bash (taken from ksh, I believe), that's
                for ((i=0;i<10;i++)); do echo $i ; done
        \_ soda:~% seq --version
           seq (GNU coreutils) 5.97
           Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
           \- you can also use jot

                                   a hozer guidelines.  Should anyone step
                                   far enough outside the hozing boundaries
                                   I will lobby them for the ability to squish.
                                   -mrauser
                             \_ Auto-deletion directly denies access
                                to the motd and thus prevents the free
                                exchange of ideas that is necessary for
                                a "marketplace of ideas" to function.
                                Auto-posting doesn't directly deny access,
                                and while it may drive people away from
                                the motd, the motd still remains accessible.
                                Thus, I think that auto-deletion, in which
                                you don't know what you lost, is a much
                                worse form of terrorist, than auto-posting,
                                which only makes it harder to find things.
                                Personally, I think both auto-posting and
                                auto-deletion need to be controlled for
                                the motd to function effectively.
        \_ seq shreads.  I use the -w option for naming nodes in a script
           for a linux cluster: for i in $(seq -w 1 200); do echo n$i; done
           will give you node001-node200
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