Subject: bug#17058: seq 8.20: wrong first delimiter character with defined separator

From: Pádraig Brady <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 16:19:10 +0000

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On 03/21/2014 10:28 AM, Eugene Bright wrote:
> To whom it may concern.
> 
> I hava an issue with seq util.
> First delimiter character is new line character in case of any separator.
> 
> For exapmle:
> seq -s '|'  1 5
> 1
> 2|3|4|5|
> 
> Version information:
> seq --version
> seq (GNU coreutils) 8.20
> 
> seq version 5.97 produce expected result:
> seq -s '|' 1 5
> 1|2|3|4|5

That was fixed in the coreutils-8.21 release (2013-02-14)
Can you log a bug with your distro re that issue
as it's a long fixed one now.

sorry for the trouble,
Pádraig.