Re: utility 'seq'

[Bob Proulx]

> I played with seq and  found it quit usefull. 
> Can I file two enhancement requests ?

Suggestions are always welcome.

> (1)  My version speaks German  and therefore (I guess) there is no decimal 
> point in reals but a decimal komma .  
> This is good and correct if the numbers are used in a german text. 
> If the numbers will be used for programming (as in my case) this  feature is 
> troublesome. 

Hmm...  Perhaps something like this might work around your problem?
Setting environment variables on the same command line does not set
them in the user's environemnt but only sets them in the environment
for that particular command.

  LC_ALL=de_DE seq 0 ,2 1
  0
  0,2
  0,4
  0,6
  0,8

  LC_ALL=POSIX seq 0 .2 1
  0
  0.2
  0.4
  0.6
  0.8

> (2)  Also for programming purpose (e.g. generating case labels with vim  it 
> would be nice to have octal and hex output.

Perhaps you can use the 'printf' command to translate?

  for n in $(seq 7 20); do printf "0x%X\n" $n; done
  0x7
  0x8
  0x9
  0xA
  0xB
  0xC
  0xD
  0xE
  0xF
  0x10
  0x11
  0x12
  0x13
  0x14

Bob