Bug 231206

Summary:	seq considers format "%02d" illegal
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Horst H. von Brand <vonbrand>
Component:	coreutils	Assignee:	Tim Waugh <twaugh>
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Description Horst H. von Brand 2007-03-06 19:10:43 UTC

Description of problem:
'seq --format="%02d" 1 10' errors out

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
coreutils-6.7-9.fc7

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. seq --format="%02d" 1 10
2.
3.
  
Actual results:
seq: invalid format string: `%02d'
Try `seq --help' for more information.

Expected results:
01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10

Additional info:

Comment 1 Horst H. von Brand 2007-03-06 19:15:04 UTC

Oops, sorry, misunderstood the man page and help text.

In any case, just floating point numbers make no sense for seq(1), I've *only*
used it with integers.

Comment 2 Tim Waugh 2007-03-07 09:06:50 UTC

%02g is what you want.