Re: strange jot behaviour

[Benjamin Karas <bjk4@po.cwru.edu>]

Try the following:
$ jot -sx " " 5
1 2 3 4 5
$ jot -sx " " 5 1 5
1 2 3 4 5
$ jot -sx ", " 5 1 100
1, 26, 50, 75, 100

The first problemm is that the -s switch is only working if you append a
character to it -- you can use any character.  This looks like a
programming error.  The reason your example looped forever is that it
interpreted the " " as a zero, which means loop forever.  Oops.

-Ben Karas

ps.  I'm working off the vanilla 2.7 install.

On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Sebastian Stark wrote:

> I discovered that jot(1) behaves very strange.
> 
> $ jot -s " " 5
> 
> should give "1 2 3 4 5" as I understand but it counts endlessly (and uses
> newlines instead of " ")
>