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authorFernando ApesteguĂ­a <fernape@FreeBSD.org>2020-06-20 11:24:29 +0000
committerFernando ApesteguĂ­a <fernape@FreeBSD.org>2020-06-20 11:24:29 +0000
commitf3ec6af0e4412daec48e73df2bd8841deac59b3d (patch)
tree4b6e845f1db355a5c84c330a5f1e6a23ec2e66d4 /usr.bin/seq
parent1831993577db18d193e94269e337f6286536814e (diff)
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diff --git a/usr.bin/seq/seq.1 b/usr.bin/seq/seq.1
index 61294c5491ea..6b5b2bd69886 100644
--- a/usr.bin/seq/seq.1
+++ b/usr.bin/seq/seq.1
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd April 30, 2018
+.Dd June 20, 2020
.Dt SEQ 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -133,22 +133,51 @@ the default conversion is changed to
.Sh EXIT STATUS
.Ex -std
.Sh EXAMPLES
+Generate a sequence from 1 to 3 (included) with a default increment of 1:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
# seq 1 3
1
2
3
-
+.Ed
+.Pp
+Generate a sequence from 3 to 1 (included) with a default increment of -1:
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
# seq 3 1
3
2
1
-
+.Ed
+.Pp
+Generate a sequence from 0 to 0.1 (included) with an increment of 0.05 and padding
+with leading zeroes.
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
# seq -w 0 .05 .1
0.00
0.05
0.10
.Ed
+.Pp
+Generate a sequence from 1 to 3 (included) with a default increment of 1,
+a custom separator string and a custom terminator:
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+# seq -s "-->" -t "[end of list]\\n" 1 3
+1-->2-->3-->[end of list]
+.Ed
+.Pp
+Generate a sequence from 1 to 2 (included) with an increment of 0.2 and
+print the results with two digits after the decimal point (using a
+.Xr printf 3
+style format):
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+# seq -f %.2f 1 0.2 2
+1.00
+1.20
+1.40
+1.60
+1.80
+2.00
+.Ed
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr jot 1 ,
.Xr printf 1 ,
@@ -165,12 +194,8 @@ command appeared in
and was ported to
.Fx 9.0 .
This command was based on the command of the same name in
-.Tn "Plan 9 from Bell Labs"
-and the
-.Tn GNU
-core utilities.
-The
-.Tn GNU
+Plan 9 from Bell Labs and the GNU core utilities.
+The GNU
.Nm
command first appeared in the 1.13 shell utilities release.
.Sh BUGS