On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 03:44:56PM +0800, M K Saravanan wrote:
> Is there any equivalent of "seq" command to generate ascii string?
> aseq aa az

google spat out this for "seq letters":
http://www.shell-tips.com/2008/01/14/printing-a-sequence-of-letters-or-numbers/

experimenting with that led to:
echo {a..a}{a..z}

appears to work for any length of string

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