Re: seq -w

[Matthew Woehlke]

Bob Proulx wrote:
> Carl Peterson wrote:
> > Recently I have been experimenting with Windows Services for Unix and 
> > it does not include the "seq" utility.  So, I downloaded "GNU 
> > utilities for Win32" from here: http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/
> >
> > However, I have discovered the "-w" option does not work.  No leading 
> > zeroes appear. Is there a newer version somewhere?
> >
> > The version I have is "seq (GNU sh-utils) 1.13".
>
> Yes.  Version 1.13 is very, very old.  You will definitely want to
> upgrade.
>
> Here is the latest release announcement.
>
>   http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils-announce/2006-12/msg00000.html
>
> For MS-Windows let me recommend the Cygwin port.
>
>   http://cygwin.com/

...or do us a favor and try to port 6.7 to Interix yourself. I had this 
working (sort-of) at one point, and would be happy to help out. There is 
a bug report somewhere out there that may help you get around some of 
SFU's deficiencies.

Although I will say that I ended up choosing Cygwin over Interix. :-)

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Matthew
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