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seq bug

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From: Vit Bartunek <vit.bartunek <at> miton.cz>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Cc: sysadmin <at> miton.cz
Subject: seq bug
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 12:03:42 +0100

Hi there,

seq parametr -w (--equal-width) is not working 

Trying to execute command bellow, the parametr seems to be ignored.
seq --equal-width 1 0 99

Name        : coreutils                    Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version     : 5.97                              Vendor: CentOS
Release     : 23.el5_4.2                    Build Date: Sun 28 Feb 2010 11:26:03 PM CET
Install Date: Fri 04 Mar 2011 01:28:50 PM CET      Build Host: builder10.centos.org
Group       : System Environment/Base       Source RPM: coreutils-5.97-23.el5_4.2.src.rpm
Size        : 9035080                          License: GPLv2+
Signature   : DSA/SHA1, Mon 01 Mar 2010 07:39:52 PM CET, Key ID a8a447dce8562897
URL         : http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/
Summary     : The GNU core utilities: a set of tools commonly used in shell scripts
Description :
These are the GNU core utilities.  This package is the combination of
the old GNU fileutils, sh-utils, and textutils packages.

Vit Bartunek

Message #8 received at 8202 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
To: Vit Bartunek <vit.bartunek <at> miton.cz>
Cc: 8202 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, sysadmin <at> miton.cz
Subject: Re: bug#8202: seq bug
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2011 08:04:32 -0700

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On 03/08/2011 04:03 AM, Vit Bartunek wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> seq parametr -w (--equal-width) is not working 
> 
> Trying to execute command bellow, the parametr seems to be ignored.
> seq --equal-width 1 0 99

Thanks for the report.  However, I cannot reproduce it:

$ seq -w 1 0 99 | head
01
01
01
01
01
01
01
01
01
01

And even if I correct the argument order (I assume you wanted to go from
0 to 99, not on an infinite loop of step size 0 with the value of 1 and
width of 99):

$ seq -w 0 1 99
00
01
02
...
98
99

That said, you didn't say what actual output you got, so you may still
have a valid report - I'm leaving this open for a few days longer in
case you can provide any more details confirming that this is a bug and
not user error.

> Version     : 5.97                              Vendor: CentOS

Also, that may be your problem.  That version is several years old; the
latest stable version is 8.10, with several fixes to seq in the meantime.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake <at> redhat.com    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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