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<[Alan]> Most of my use of seq (or under bsd, jot) seems to boil down to:

  $ seq 1 100 | while read i; do something with $i; done

What about you?


<[Brennen]> I kind of like

  for i in `seq 1 10`; do something with $i; done

better than the usual 3-part for. But yeah. I'm waiting for some other structure to crop up.

Hmm. I could really use a "dateseq". With GNU date(1), this is simple:

 #!/bin/bash
 seq 1 $1 | while read i; do date -d "+$i day"; done

'course, it should take an actual range and maybe format options.