jot (was Re: sh loop variable)

[Rob McMahon]

About sequence generators.  I've always used `jot', and tend to expect it to
exist, but I was reminded that it only exists on BSD systems, and not all (or
even many ?) of those.  Does anyone know the status of jot, and its brothers
rs and lam ?  Is anyone actually supporting them ?  Can they be distributed ?
My copy says:

/* Copyright (c) 1983 Regents of the University of California */

#ifndef lint
static char sccsid[] = "@(#)jot.c       4.3     (Berkeley)      4/5/86";
#endif not lint

/*
 *      jot - print sequential or random data
 *      Author:  John Kunze, Office of Comp. Affairs, UCB
 */

Surely there can't be any AT&T code in there.

I use jot and rs regularly, and lam is useful in scripts sometimes, when you
want to pull a file apart, mangle the components, and stick it back together.

Cheers,

Rob
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