Seq does not exist on OS X, it seems. Personally I've never used it.  
The patch only fixes the version installed by fish, so, should have no  
side effects at all!

-Dave

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On Apr 2, 2010, at 2:09 AM, Isaac Dupree  
<[email protected]> wrote:

> On 04/02/10 01:31, David Frascone wrote:
>> Found and fixed.  There were several issues.  First, most people  
>> who type
>> seq are really running seq on their host.  Fish will only use the  
>> builtin if
>> it doesn't find it locally.  Use 'seq --version' to see what I mean.
>
> of course seq is /usr/bin/seq ! (or wherever it is on your path.) What
> does it have to do with Fish? How can Fish have a possibly-a-builtin,
> possibly-not?(for me, 'type seq' just says 'seq is /usr/bin/seq' ...)
> Isn't it against Fish's philosophy to duplicate external tools that
> don't need to be built into a shell?
>
> Is Mac OS X 'seq' broken, under-featured, (or nonexistent?)?  I  
> would be
> unsurprised.  In 10.3 (the last version I used regularly), I know they
> shipped a version of 'find' that enjoyed segfaulting (or some weird
> error, I forget exactly) when you forgot that their version of the
> 'find' command didn't support omitting the path bit (you had to pass
> '.'). Admittedly, I think they just copied the tools from BSD, but  
> that
> doesn't mean they were good tools...
>
> -Isaac
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