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From: Peter Ruskin <peter.ruskin@×××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] "seq --equal-width" not working
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 11:59:20
Message-Id: 200612071154.52021.peter.ruskin@dsl.pipex.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] "seq --equal-width" not working by Andres Buehlmann
1 On Thursday 07 December 2006 11:00, Andres Buehlmann wrote:
2 >
3 > I found a problem using seq (from coreutils):
4 > With version 6.4, I get:
5 >
6 > seq -w 0 0.25 1
7 > 0
8 > 0.25
9 > 0.5
10 > 0.75
11 > 1
12 >
13 > I.e., zero padding (with decimals) doesn't work.
14 >
15 >
16 > However, with the older version 5.94, I get as expected:
17 >
18 > seq -w 0 0.25 1
19 > 0.00
20 > 0.25
21 > 0.50
22 > 0.75
23 > 1.00
24 >
25 > Can anybody confirm this? Am I missing something or is it simply
26 > a bug in the newer version?
27 >
28 Yes, it's the same here with sys-apps/coreutils-6.6. The -w switch
29 is not working, despite what the man page says. I suggest you
30 raise a bug report.
31
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