seq

seq [OPTION]... LAST
seq [OPTION]... FIRST LAST
seq [OPTION]... FIRST INCREMENT LAST

Display numbers from FIRST to LAST, in steps of INCREMENT.

Options

--separator, -s

Separator character (defaults to \n)

--terminator, -t

Terminator character (defaults to \n)

--equal-width, -w

Equalize widths of all numbers by padding with zeros

--format, -f

use printf style floating-point FORMAT

Examples

Sequence from 1 to 10:

seq 10

Every 3rd number from 5 to 20:

seq 5 3 20

Separate the output with a space instead of a newline:

seq -s " " 5 3 20

Format output width to a minimum of 4 digits padding with zeros as necessary:

seq -f "%04g" 5 3 20

The examples are provided by the tldr-pages project under the CC BY 4.0 License.

Please note that, as uutils is a work in progress, some examples might fail.