GNU bug report logs - #13227
seq -s broken in coretutils 8.20?

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Philipp Gortan <gortan <at> gmail.com>

Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 17:07:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 13493, 14584, 15869, 17058

Done: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #13 received at 13227-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Philipp Gortan <gortan <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 13227-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#13227: seq -s broken in coretutils 8.20?
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 00:33:05 +0000

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On 12/19/2012 07:01 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 12/19/2012 04:53 PM, Philipp Gortan wrote:
>> Dear coreutils crowd,
>>
>> I recently upgraded the coreutils on my Gentoo AMD64 from 8.16 to 8.20.
>> I used the seq command to generate the values of an SQL "in" statement.
>> Since I upgraded, the SQL is no longer correct - here is what I found out:
>>
>> $ seq -s, 6 9; seq --version
>>
>> 6
>> 7,8,9,seq (GNU coreutils) 8.20
>> ...
>>
>> (nb: newline after the "6", the comma after the 9 and the missing newline)

The attached should fix it.

thanks,
Pádraig.

[seq-sep.diff (text/x-patch, attachment)]
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