[mdlug] Forgotten command

[Dave Misevich]

On 1/10/07, Wojtak, Greg <GregWojtak at quickenloans.com> wrote:
> OK, I¹m drawing a blank here... what is the command in Linux to generate a
> list of numbers.  I thought it was called step.  If you did `step 1 5', it
> would spit out 1 2 3 4 5.  Useful in for loops so you didn't have to type
> out each number.
>
> Help?
>
> Greg

Tip: use "man -k"  or apropros to search descriptions of system
commands. It can sometimes lead you to the right thing.

If you know you want to work with numbers, try "man -k numbers". It
returns a short list, one of which is seq.

apropos(1)                                                          apropos(1)

NAME
       apropos - search the whatis database for strings

SYNOPSIS
       apropos keyword ...

DESCRIPTION
       apropos  searches a set of database files containing short descriptions
       of system commands for keywords and displays the result on the standard
       output.


hth
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Dave Misevich