Axel Liljencrantz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
seq a 3 h
should output
a
d
g
Hmm, suppose someone wants the characters from '9' through ';'?
What about non-ASCII locales? What order should the characters appear?
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On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 01:37 -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
Axel Liljencrantz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
seq a 3 h
should output
a
d
g
Hmm, suppose someone wants the characters from '9' through ';'?
The way I implemented it, seq quits with an error message if you
specify a
On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 01:37:02AM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
Axel Liljencrantz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
seq a 3 h
should output
a
d
g
Hmm, suppose someone wants the characters from '9' through ';'?
What about non-ASCII locales? What order should the characters appear?
FreeBSD's
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POSIX allows `ls -F' to append other indicators for file types other than
directories '/', fifos '|', and symlinks '@'. coreutils ls additionally
supports sockets '=', as documented in POSIX application usage as a common
extension, but nothing
Axel Liljencrantz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This is an excellent question. I'm glad you asked, since I've given
it a fair bit of thought. It might seem like a good idea to use the
character ordering of the current locale, so you can generate
sequences with all the strange characters of your
On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Andreas Schwab wrote:
Axel Liljencrantz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This is an excellent question. I'm glad you asked, since I've given
it a fair bit of thought. It might seem like a good idea to use the
character ordering of the current locale, so you can generate
Axel Liljencrantz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
As to non-latin and multibyte, I only have use for doing sequences of
letters from the english alphabet, and that is what I implemented.
Your version will happily accept non-ASCII letters as start or end point,
as long as they are single-byte.
