Janis Papanagnou <Janis_Papanagnou@hotmail.com> writes:

>Stephane CHAZELAS wrote:
>> 2006-11-1, 00:22(-05), Bill Marcum:
>>
>>>Some systems have the "seq" command:
>>>for x in `seq 1 10`
>>
>> GNU systems, seq is a GNU only command. And that assumes the
>> newline character is in IFS and that no digits are in IFS.

>If one fiddles with IFS he should take care that any changed
>IFS has just some well defined preferable local scope, take
>some precautions to save/restore it, or define it for a single
>command only.


And who needs seq (for most purposes) when you have:

`yes "" | cat -n | head -10`


for 10 fill in any number.

Casper