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From: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: stupid unix commands
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Date: 2 May 90 17:30:42 GMT
References: <15633@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <4108@sbsvax.cs.uni-sb.de> <1574@island.uu.net>
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In-Reply-To: daniel@island.uu.net (Dan Smith "fast screens, loud music, slow car")

In article <1574@island.uu.net>, daniel@island (Dan Smith "fast screens, loud music, slow car") writes:
| 	I've found "yes" does have a use for generating a list of numbers
| in a shell script, a la:
| 
| 	yes "" | cat -n | head -20 | tail -10

Gack.  Get Perl:

perl -e 'for (11..20) {printf "%6d\n",$_;}'

...if you need the leading whitespace, and...

perl -e '@a=11..20; print "@a"'

if you just want whitespace separated values.

print "Just another Perl hacker,"
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