svn commit: r204103 - in head/usr.bin: . seq

[Ulrich Spörlein]

On Sat, 20.02.2010 at 11:58:38 +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 11:54:12PM +0000, Xin LI wrote:
> > Author: delphij
> > Date: Fri Feb 19 23:54:12 2010
> > New Revision: 204103
> > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/204103
> > 
> > Log:
> >   Add seq(1), a small utility to generate sequence number.
> 
> Why do we need this when we have jot(1)?

Compatibility with shell scripts, I suppose. Some ports may use seq(1)
in their test or build targets, etc. There is no jot(1) on any Linux or
Solaris I've seen so usage of seq(1) is fairly common.

I wonder though, if we could merge functionality into jot(1) and employ
a link to seq.

Uli