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Date:      Tue, 8 Nov 2005 10:30:26 GMT
From:      Murray Nesbitt <murray@nesbitt.ca>
To:        freebsd-ports-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: ports/88391: New port: misc/loop is a shell programming utility that prints to stdout a series of numbers from `start' to `end'
Message-ID:  <200511081030.jA8AUQlx070201@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR ports/88391; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Murray Nesbitt <murray@nesbitt.ca>
To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: ports/88391: New port: misc/loop is a shell programming utility
 that prints to stdout a series of numbers from `start' to `end'
Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2005 02:20:02 -0800

 Hmm, not really, I guess.  The syntax is arguably more straightforward than jot (closer to gnu 'seq', but it can do more than that utility--hex and octal output, for example).  To print the range 1-20 with this utility is 'loop 1 20', whereas with jot it's 'jot 20 1'.
 
 I think it's possible to use this utility without reading the man page, which I can't say for jot.  Could just be me.
 
 Murray



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