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Re: Bad number of digits in brace sequence expansion when used increment
From: |
Chet Ramey |
Subject: |
Re: Bad number of digits in brace sequence expansion when used increment |
Date: |
Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:38:22 -0400 |
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Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Macintosh/20090605) |
Roman Rakus wrote:
> On 07/28/2009 04:22 PM, Roman Rakus wrote:
>> When we use 0 prefix and increment bash will prefix all integers with
>> bad number of zeroes. Man page says "When either x or y begins with a
>> zero, the shell attempts to force all generated terms to contain the
>> same number of digits, zero-padding where necessary."
>> The number of digits is same, but not what would anyone expect.
>>
>> Repeated by:
>> echo {1..05..1}
>>
>> Actual result:
>> 00001 00002 00003 00004 00005
>>
>> Desired result:
>> 01 02 03 04 05
>>
>> Patch included.
>> RR
> Chet, what do you think about it?
I had already fixed it a different way before the original message
appeared.
Chet
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