SEQ(1)

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version 0.12.0 · 7 versions
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💖 SEQ(1) — the manual, but make it cute 💖

okay bestie, welcome to seq from the General Commands Manual section of your friendly neighbourhood system 🫶 she counts for you. That's the whole job. And she's so good at it.

✨ NAME ✨

seq — display numbers from FIRST to LAST, in steps of INCREMENT. 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

seq [OPTION]... LAST
seq [OPTION]... FIRST LAST
seq [OPTION]... FIRST INCREMENT LAST

see how it just... gets more? three whole moods. pick your fighter ✨

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Display numbers from FIRST to LAST, in steps of INCREMENT. That's it. That's the vibe. She literally just counts, and she counts flawlessly. no cap. 👑

🌈 OPTIONS 🌈

  • -s, --separator — the separator character, bestie. defaults to \n.
  • -t, --terminator — the terminator character. also defaults to \n 💖
  • -w, --equal-width — equalize widths of all numbers by padding with zeros. so they all line up, main character energy, every number the same size 🎀
  • -f, --format — use printf style floating-point FORMAT. yes, printf style. she speaks fluent printf. iykyk.
  • -h, --help — print help 🦋
  • -V, --version — print version ⭐
  • [numbers]

💜 VERSION 💜

v(uutils coreutils) 0.12.0

🔥 EXAMPLES 🔥

not me being obsessed with how flexible this girl is

Print a sequence from 1 to 10:

seq 10

Print a sequence from 10 to 20:

seq 10 20

Print every 3rd number from 5 to 20:

seq 5 3 20

Separate the output with a space instead of a newline:

seq [-s|--separator] " " 5 3 20

Format output width to a minimum of 4 digits padding with zeros as necessary:

seq [-f|--format] "%04g" 5 3 20

Print all numbers with the same width:

seq [-w|--equal-width] 5 3 20
💀 heads up bestie: the examples are provided by the tldr-pages project <https://tldr.sh> under the CC BY 4.0 License. Please note that, as uutils is a work in progress, some examples might fail. don't come for her, she's growing 🙈

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