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#23110
seq apparent bug
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Reported by: Маренков Евгений <hotpil <at> mail.ru>
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2016 17:23:03 UTC
Severity: normal
Tags: fixed
Done: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>
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Should not an increment of zero be flagged as an error, and not ignored?
Regards
Leslie
Mr. Leslie Satenstein
Montréal Québec, Canada
From: Bernhard Voelker <mail <at> bernhard-voelker.de>
To: Маренков Евгений <hotpil <at> mail.ru>; 23110 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2016 1:44 PM
Subject: bug#23110: seq apparent bug
On 03/24/2016 04:28 PM, Маренков Евгений wrote:
> I have recently noticed an apparent bug in 'seq'. If one runs
> seq -w 2 1 10
> everything works fine.
> But
> seq -w 2 0 10
> falls into endless loop ...
Thanks for the report.
However, I don't think this is a bug but more a misunderstanding
on your side how seq works. It's clearly documented that the
second number (if 3 are given) is the increment. As you passed
0 as value, the target 10 is never reached, and therefore seq
continues to produce output. Thus, it exactly does what you
told it to do. What else would you expect?
Have a nice day,
Berny
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