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bug#17800: seq weirdness with -0
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Rasmus Villemoes |
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bug#17800: seq weirdness with -0 |
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Date: |
Wed, 18 Jun 2014 21:10:50 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) |
Bernhard Voelker <address@hidden> writes:
> On 06/18/2014 03:39 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> Subject: [PATCH] seq: fix incorrect output with start or end of -0
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> LGTM - although I'm still wondering what's the use case
> behind a negative Null "-0". ;-)
I agree it is unlikely anyone would write -0 explicitly, but one could
imagine a script doing
seq -$n $m | ...
where the preceding code sets $n and $m to be some non-negative integers.
Thanks for the quick response.
Rasmus