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| author | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2012-09-15 08:09:18 +0200 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2012-09-15 08:09:18 +0200 |
| commit | c5ccf29bbfaab01ed893c9ca3a3843181c329317 (patch) | |
| tree | d223003b06a4c4f30586ecfa60a97b1004e9697a | |
| parent | 3786fb6de3918692675287953825ef623bcff9b6 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-c5ccf29bbfaab01ed893c9ca3a3843181c329317.tar.xz | |
doc: update seq description
* doc/coreutils.texi (seq invocation): Update an example and mention
that with the new constraints, seq can print arbitrarily large numbers.
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/coreutils.texi | 12 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index f2620bc5a..cb4ad838d 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -16249,12 +16249,16 @@ case is that @command{seq} works with integers through @math{2^{64}}, and larger integers may not be numerically correct: @example -$ seq 18446744073709551616 1 18446744073709551618 -18446744073709551616 -18446744073709551616 -18446744073709551618 +$ seq 50000000000000000000 2 50000000000000000004 +50000000000000000000 +50000000000000000000 +50000000000000000004 @end example +However, note that when limited to non-negative whole numbers, +an increment of 1 and no format-specifying option, seq can print +arbitrarily large numbers. + Be careful when using @command{seq} with outlandish values: otherwise you may see surprising results, as @command{seq} uses floating point internally. For example, on the x86 platform, where the internal |