I was wondering how such an implementation would possibly look like. But before I dig into the code again, some clarification on the specifics of expected behavior would be regarded helpful.
Would such a change allow for repeated items such as $ seq -f "a" 5 a a a a a for example? With following invocation $ ./src/seq -f "a" 5 it currently (with the patched version) results in ./src/seq: no % directive in format string `a' Try `./src/seq --help' for more information. Would it then be considered sensible to introduce a new command-line flag or should we perhaps circumvent this limitation whenever an alphanumeric string is found? PS: I searched the mailing list archive, but there didn't seem to be any previously related discussion on this topic. Steven Schubiger _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
