AIX Equivelant to "seq"

[bambock]

Does anyone know of a command that utility or method via the shell that is equivelant to the seq command in Linux? For instance, from the command line I want to run a command 30 times, the seq command allows this in the example below:

# for i in `seq 1 30`
> do
> print $i
> done

man seq:

http://man.splitbrain.org/seq

Thanks.
Ethan

 

[p5wizard]

own scripting possibly (no checking of number of parameters, or their values is provided in this example):

beg=$1
end=$2
seq=''
while ((beg<=end))
do
 seq="$seq $beg"
 ((beg=beg+1))
done
echo $seq

HTH,

p5wizard

 

[Ogzilal]

Hi,

Using p5wizard code in a convenient way

#/usr/bin/ksh 
# declaring p5wizard function
function seq {
beg=$1
end=$2
seq=''
while ((beg<=end))
do
 seq="$seq $beg"
 ((beg=beg+1))
done
echo $seq
}

# calling seq function
for i in $(seq 25 30)
do
        print $i
done

 

[mrn]

Use the bash shell seq is available...

Mike

"Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters."

 

[mrn]

I lied

It's available in

http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/

Mike

"Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters."

 

[bambock]

Thanks everyone.

 

[Mag0007]

$ echo '0 30' | awk '{ for (i=$1;i<=$2;i++) { print i} }'

my way

 

[p5wizard]

another short way:

for i in $(yes|head -30)
do
# this block gets run 30 times, but you lose the number
# i is set to 'yes' each time
echo $i
done

or if you're feeling negative:

for i in $(yes no|head -30)
do
# i is set to 'no' each time
echo $i
done


HTH,

p5wizard

 

[columb]

It wouldn't be rocket science to write 'seq'
Something along the lines of

#!/bin/ksh

[[ $# -eq 2 ]] || exit 1;
[[ $2 -ge $1 ]] || exit 1
while [ $1 -le $2 ]
do
  echo $1
  (( $1 += 1 ))
done

and stick it somewhere on your path.

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Columb Healy

 

[p5wizard]

it can be a function also:

seq()
{
[[ $# -eq 2 ]] &&\
[[ $2 -ge $1 ]] &&\
[[ $1+0 -eq $1 ]] &&\
[[ $2+0 -eq $2 ]] &&\
yes ''|nl -ba|head -$2|tail +$1
}


HTH,

p5wizard

 

[columb]

p5wizard
Neat way to check for ints!

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Columb Healy