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Re: seq feature: print letters
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Bernhard Voelker |
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Re: seq feature: print letters |
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Thu, 03 Jul 2014 08:18:31 +0200 |
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On 07/03/2014 02:02 AM, Assaf Gordon wrote:
> if the user has to type them explicitly, then seq is no better
> than "printf '%s\n' " followed by all the letters typed by the user...
The user could let the shell produce the input:
$ printf "%c" {a..z} | seq -s ' ' --alpha=- 2 2 6
b d f
thus picking the Nth character from the input. ;-)
Have a nice day,
Berny