2 # Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>
4 # Copyright 1998 Chester Ramey
6 # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
7 # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
8 # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
11 # TThis program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
12 # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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18 # Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
20 # Generate a sequence from m to n, m defaults to 1.
24 declare -i lo hi i # makes local
25 local _SEQ INIT COMPARE STEP
28 -r) INIT='i=$hi _SEQ=""' COMPARE='let "i >= $lo"' STEP='let i-=1' ; shift ;;
29 *) INIT='i=$lo _SEQ=""' COMPARE='let "i <= $hi"' STEP='let i+=1' ;;
35 *) echo seq: usage: seq [-r] [low] high 1>&2 ; return 2 ;;
38 # equivalent to the as-yet-unimplemented
39 # for (( "$INIT" ; "$COMPARE" ; "$STEP" )); do _SEQ="${_SEQ}$i "; done
41 while eval "$COMPARE"; do
49 # like the APL `iota' function (or at least how I remember it :-)
53 1) seq 1 "$1"; return $?;;
54 *) echo "iota: usage: iota high" 1>&2; return 2;;