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Created January 27, 2012 19:50
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A bash implementation of the GNU seq command found on most unix systems. This is useful on AIX (which seems to lack seq)
#!/bin/bash
# Implements GNU seq functionality.
# Useful on IBM AIX systems which don't have GNU coreutils.
if [ -z "$3" ]; then
# if no third arg
incr=1
j=$2
else
incr=$2
j=$3
fi
i=$1
while [[ i -le j ]]; do
echo $i
let i+=$incr
done
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Are we to add this to our existing script?

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