On 02/09/2025 13:11, ondra007.tom@seznam.cz wrote:
> It looks like seq for integers bigger than 2^64 sometimes generate wrong
> results. There are few examples of wrong output I have found:
> 
> 
> $ seq 18446744073709551617 inf | head -3
> 
> 18446744073709551616
> 18446744073709551617
> 18446744073709551618
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> $  seq 10000000000000000000000000000 inf | head -3
> 
> 
> 9999999999999999999731564544
> 9999999999999999999731564545
> 9999999999999999999731564546

We can improve for the above 2 cases anyway,
with something like the attached.

Large magnitude negative start values are still problematic.

cheers,
Padraig