Re: seq 0 0 0

[Rasmus Borup Hansen]

I see that. The version I have does not say so, though. However, it does say:

`seq' prints the numbers from FIRST to LAST by INCREMENT.

This is why I expected a single line if FIRST and LAST are equal, no matter what INCREMENT is.

Now I also noticed that seq 0 -1 0 generates just a single line. In this case the sum of the current number and INCREMENT is less than LAST when the sequence ends.

Best,

Rasmus

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On 11 Dec 2014, at 15:25, Pádraig Brady <address@hidden> wrote:

On 11/12/14 14:04, Rasmus Borup Hansen wrote:

I just noticed that the command "seq 0 0 0" produces infinitely many lines of zeros. Is this intentional? I was expecting only a single one. I'm using 8.21 on Ubuntu 14.04.

I'm not sure a single line would be appropriate.
It would either be all or none, right?

The info docs say: "The sequence of numbers ends when the sum of
the current number and INCREMENT would become greater than LAST"

So the output is consistent with that at least.

I notice that the FreeBSD version of seq exits with an error
for an increment of 0.

cheers,
Pádraig.