Package: Coreutils
Severity: wishlist
seq only supports floating point types like f and g in the --format string.
Other types, including i,d,o,u,x,X would also be useful.
e.g. "seq --format 'prefix%02isuffix' 1 50" to print zero-padded 1-50 with
user-specified prefix and suffix strings.
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Rafal W. writes:
>
> > $ cat /dev/zero
> > ^\Quit (core dumped)
> >
> > Steps to reproduce:
> > 1. Switch to any text console (it doesn't happen in X).
> > 2. Login
> > 3. Run: cat /dev/zero
> > 4. Press: Ctrl-Alt-SysRq-1 (or any number except letters:)
What's that supposed to do? Ctrl isn't norm
> $ cat /dev/zero
> ^\Quit (core dumped)
>
> Steps to reproduce:
> 1. Switch to any text console (it doesn't happen in X).
> 2. Login
> 3. Run: cat /dev/zero
> 4. Press: Ctrl-Alt-SysRq-1 (or any number except letters:)
> 5. You'll see: ^\Quit (core dumped)
>
> Here is the backtrace:
> kenorb@kenorb
