I was just doing a bit of scripting when it occurred to me: why does
no-one include jot, rs, and lam in their distros ? Okay, lam is mostly
replaced by paste, jot can be done with a perl one-liner, though with a
lot more typing, but how do people live without rs ? I personally use
jot and rs all the time, though not lam.
for i in `jot -c 26 a`; do ...
users | rs
...
> jot 40 | rs
1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21 23 25 27 29 31 33 35
37 39
2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 28 30 32 34 36
38 40
>
They're ancient commands under the BSD licence. I was just wondering
why they never made it into the mainstream, and whether we could maybe
get them into (Open)Solaris. Is it worth it ? What would it take ?
How do other people get these jobs done.
Rob
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