Closing INVALID, then, given this is a known, documented limitation.
** Changed in: coreutils (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => Invalid
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I dont usually read info pages since I have trouble navigating them. But
reading what you quoted made clear what happened.
I would personally have preferred it if seq would notice when the increment
is not doing anything, and instead of producing infinite output, complained
and quit as it does wh
Hello Kevin, and thank you for opening this bug and helping make Ubuntu
better.
The info page for seq (info seq) has the following note:
" On most systems, seq can produce whole-number output for values up to
at least 2^{53}. Larger integers are approximated. The details differ
depending on you
It's worse than I thought. Increments of 2 fail even when aa factor of
100 away from the limit:
kevin@plato-x:~$ seq 170141183460469231731687303715884105721 1
170141183460469231731687303715884105725 | head -10
170141183460469231731687303715884105721
170141183460469231731687303715884105722
170141
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