GNU bug report logs - #23110
seq apparent bug

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Package: coreutils;

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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From: Bernhard Voelker <mail <at> bernhard-voelker.de>
To: Маренков Евгений <hotpil <at> mail.ru>, 23110 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23110: seq apparent bug
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2016 18:44:04 +0100

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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