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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Using seq (Or alternative) Post 302417163 by alister on Wednesday 28th of April 2010 05:52:49 PM
Old 04-28-2010
Hi, gtc, and welcome to the forums.

You can use printf to ensure that numbers have a specified precision:
Code:
printf '%.1f\n' -20
-20.0

For your situation, if you require all numbers to be similarly formated, perhaps:
Code:
seq $(printf '%.1f ' $first $increment $last) > output.dat

Regards,
Alister
 

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SEQ(1)								   User Commands							    SEQ(1)

NAME
seq - print a sequence of numbers SYNOPSIS
seq [OPTION]... LAST seq [OPTION]... FIRST LAST seq [OPTION]... FIRST INCREMENT LAST DESCRIPTION
Print numbers from FIRST to LAST, in steps of INCREMENT. -f, --format=FORMAT use printf style floating-point FORMAT -s, --separator=STRING use STRING to separate numbers (default: ) -w, --equal-width equalize width by padding with leading zeroes --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit If FIRST or INCREMENT is omitted, it defaults to 1. That is, an omitted INCREMENT defaults to 1 even when LAST is smaller than FIRST. FIRST, INCREMENT, and LAST are interpreted as floating point values. INCREMENT is usually positive if FIRST is smaller than LAST, and INCREMENT is usually negative if FIRST is greater than LAST. FORMAT must be suitable for printing one argument of type `double'; it defaults to %.PRECf if FIRST, INCREMENT, and LAST are all fixed point decimal numbers with maximum precision PREC, and to %g otherwise. AUTHOR
Written by Ulrich Drepper. REPORTING BUGS
Report seq bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/> COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. SEE ALSO
The full documentation for seq is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and seq programs are properly installed at your site, the command info coreutils 'seq invocation' should give you access to the complete manual. GNU coreutils 7.1 July 2010 SEQ(1)
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