[vox-tech] seq command on Mac OS X

Micah Cowan micah at cowan.name
Thu Mar 17 12:23:22 PST 2005


Dylan Beaudette wrote:

> ok...  this might be a dumb question... but as my home machine is now 
> an OS X machine,  a few little things are driving me nuts...
>
> the lack of the "seq" command is one of those things. I have tried 
> searching for the source code for the version that is normally found 
> on most normal *NIX distributions, but have not been able to find 
> anything of  the sort. Would it be easier to simply re-write it in 
> bash, or some other scripting language? if so, anyone have some ideas 
> on said script?
>
> thanks in advance for considering this non-linux question. 

seq is apparently part of GNU coreutils (used to be part of shellutils):

http://www.gnu.org/software/shellutils/shellutils.html
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/

HTH,
Micah



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