stupid unix commands

[Randal Schwartz]

In article <1574 at island.uu.net>, daniel at island (Dan Smith "fast screens, loud music, slow car") writes:
| 	I've found "yes" does have a use for generating a list of numbers
| in a shell script, a la:
| 
| 	yes "" | cat -n | head -20 | tail -10

Gack.  Get Perl:

perl -e 'for (11..20) {printf "%6d\n",$_;}'

...if you need the leading whitespace, and...

perl -e '@a=11..20; print "@a"'

if you just want whitespace separated values.

print "Just another Perl hacker,"
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