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seq weirdness with -0

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From: Rasmus Villemoes <rv <at> rasmusvillemoes.dk>
To: 17800 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Bernhard Voelker <mail <at> bernhard-voelker.de>, P <at> draigBrady.com
Subject: bug#17800: seq weirdness with -0
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 21:10:50 +0200

Bernhard Voelker <mail <at> bernhard-voelker.de> writes:

> On 06/18/2014 03:39 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> Subject: [PATCH] seq: fix incorrect output with start or end of -0
>
> 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

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