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 <[email protected]> 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.
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