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On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 02:30:12PM +0100, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
  | On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, Brian Ginsbach wrote:
  | >I've written a BSD licensed version of seq(1) from Plan 9 and I'd
  | >like some feedback.  I'll commit this in several days if I don't
  | >hear any strong objections.  Note this command is also a part of
  | >the GNU `coreutils'.  Yes, I know that jot(1) has similar functionalit=
y.
  |=20
  | Why do you think this must be committed (to src/*, I presume),
  | esp. if there's already a tool that does something similar?
  | I'd suggest to make it into a pkg for now.

At a guess: "because many Linux distros have such a command [because of
GNU coreutils] and many 3rd party tools/scripts assume it's available".

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