Subject: bug#13493: closed (Re: bug#13493: seq -s, 1 3 gives unexpected output)

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Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2013 05:31:04 +0000

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#13493: seq -s, 1 3 gives unexpected output

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Subject: Re: bug#13493: seq -s, 1 3 gives unexpected output
From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
To: Morten Hustveit <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 21:29:48 -0800
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On 01/18/2013 01:27 PM, Morten Hustveit wrote:

> I prefer the latter output.

Thanks, here's a patch, which should appear
in the next coreutils release:

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=76f606a9544bd67629bd4766ff6efe8bf42b20d9

Subject: seq -s, 1 3 gives unexpected output
From: Morten Hustveit <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 13:27:31 -0800
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Running "seq -s, 1 3" on coreutils 8.20 gives the output

  1
  2,3,

Running "seq -s, 1 3" on coreutils 8.13 gives the output

  1,2,3

I prefer the latter output.