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Was anyone else unfamiliar with `/usr/bin/jot`? It looks like it is an obscure way of doing:

    $ seq 1 10000000

I think a lot of people forget about the beauty and power of coreutils.

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the example was generated on a mac, which uses the FreeBSD userland utilities. seq is not included in non-GNU user-land utilities (as it is not POSIX), jot is the (more-or-less) equivalent of seq for BSD systems.

  $ uname -s
  Darwin
  $ type seq
  seq is /usr/bin/seq

The man page says --

The seq command first appeared in Plan 9 from Bell Labs. A seq command appeared in NetBSD 3.0, and ported to FreeBSD 9.0. This command was based on the command of the same name in Plan 9 from Bell Labs and the GNU core utilities. The GNU seq command first appeared in the 1.13 shell utilities release.

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