Keith Thompson wrote on Mon, Apr 03, 2023 at 10:15:40PM -0700: > The GNU coreutils seq command recognizes and handles negative > arguments. > > The busybox seq command does not. Any argument starting with a '-' > character is assumed to be an option name. > > There is a (rather inconvenient) workaround: you can add a leading > space, which is ignored.
You can also use '--' to stop parsing options and feels a bit more standard than leading spaces. $ busybox seq -- -2 2 -2 -1 0 1 2 Commands like busybox tail handle ±digit, so I assume something similar can be done but that will be a bit convoluted to make it work the same way when there are other arguments first... -- Dominique Martinet | Asmadeus _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
