bug#20767: seq invocation limitations documentation

2015-06-08 Thread Stephane Chazelas
2015-06-08 07:28:25 +0800, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson: On (info (coreutils) seq invocation) perhaps mention if one needs to use two % items, a for loop might be required, $ for i in `seq 14484 1 34484`; do printf %d=0x%x\\n $i $i; done 14484=0x3894 24484=0x5fa4 34484=0x86b4 [...] Running

bug#20767: seq invocation limitations documentation

2015-06-08 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Actually it would be great if one could just do seq -f %d=0x%x 14484 1 34484 where seq could just take the standard printf arguments, and % could be used more than once, as I don't think it could mean any second argument...

bug#20767: seq invocation limitations documentation

2015-06-07 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
On (info (coreutils) seq invocation) perhaps mention if one needs to use two % items, a for loop might be required, $ for i in `seq 14484 1 34484`; do printf %d=0x%x\\n $i $i; done 14484=0x3894 24484=0x5fa4 34484=0x86b4