'seq' at a BSD-like OS?

Alex Zbyslaw xfb52 at dial.pipex.com
Fri Nov 24 07:26:15 PST 2006


Soo-Hyun Choi wrote:

> Hi,
>
> If I'm at a Linux machine, I can use 'seq'. (Okay, everyone knows it.)
> But when I'm at a BSD-like OS, I can't find 'seq' from the coreutils.
>
> Does anybody know how I install it over FreeBSD or Mac OS X?

Install the sysutils/coreutils port to get gseq (which you can alias to 
seq, or make a symlink or whatever you want).

Or check out FreeBSD's jot command.

> (Okay, everyone knows it.) 

Personally, I'd never heard of it :-)

--Alex





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