On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 5:35 AM, Ulrich Spörlein <u...@freebsd.org> wrote: > 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.
Yes exactly. > I wonder though, if we could merge functionality into jot(1) and employ > a link to seq. The primary difference between the two is the command line parsing and option handling and seq uses double number. I think we will not benefit a lot from the shared code unfortunately... Cheers, -- Xin LI <delp...@delphij.net> http://www.delphij.net _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
