Re: any equivalent of "seq" command to generate ascii string sequence

M K Saravanan <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.user-groups.linux.singapore
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Excellent.  Thanks a lot.

Never realized that we can do this with echo.

-- mks --

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Martin Bähr <
mbaehr-J82dVEKiPgVsIEQYbtjsvCEcasqEdqbRs2V0tQ3P5b8@public.gmane.org> wrote:

> On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 03:44:56PM +0800, M K Saravanan wrote:
> > Is there any equivalent of "seq" command to generate ascii string?
> > aseq aa az
>
> google spat out this for "seq letters":
>
> http://www.shell-tips.com/2008/01/14/printing-a-sequence-of-letters-or-numbers/
>
> experimenting with that led to:
> echo {a..a}{a..z}
>
> appears to work for any length of string
>
>

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