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Was anyone else unfamiliar with `/usr/bin/jot`? It looks like it is an obscure way of doing: $ seq 1 10000000 I think a lot of people forget about the bea
by dfc 13y ago
Was anyone else unfamiliar with `/usr/bin/jot`? It looks like it is an obscure way of doing:
$ seq 1 10000000
I think a lot of people forget about the beauty and power of coreutils.
- mssaxm 13y agothe example was generated on a mac, which uses the FreeBSD userland utilities. seq is not included in non-GNU user-land utilities (as it is not POSIX), jot is the (more-or-less) equivalent of seq for BSD systems.
- 286c8cb04bda 13y ago$ uname -s Darwin $ type seq seq is /usr/bin/seq The man page says -- The seq command first appeared in Plan 9 from Bell Labs. A seq command appeared in NetBSD 3.0, and ported to FreeBSD 9.0. This command was based on the command of the same name in Plan 9 from Bell Labs and the GNU core utilities. The GNU seq command first appeared in the 1.13 shell utilities release.