bug#12482: Feature Request: support for int, octal, and hex types in seq --format

[Craig Sanders]

Package: Coreutils
Severity: wishlist

seq only supports floating point types like f and g in the --format string.

Other types, including i,d,o,u,x,X would also be useful.

e.g. "seq --format 'prefix%02isuffix' 1 50" to print zero-padded 1-50 with
user-specified prefix and suffix strings.

see
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/48750/creating-numerous-directories-using-mkdir/48758#48758
for a real-world usage example.


Thanks,

craig

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