GNU bug report logs - #20767
seq: support multiple % in -f format

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>

Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2015 02:07:02 UTC

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From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
To: 20767 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20767: seq invocation limitations documentation
Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2015 07:28:25 +0800

On (info "(coreutils) seq invocation") perhaps mention if one needs to
use two % items, a for loop might be required,

$ for i in `seq 14484 10000 34484`; do printf %d=0x%x\\n $i $i; done
14484=0x3894
24484=0x5fa4
34484=0x86b4
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