This feels like it should already be a feature in a terminal. But I didn’t find anything that let me do this efficiently.

I had a rust library for converting list like 1-4,8-10 into vectors, but thought I’d expand it into a command line command as well, as it is really useful when I want to run batch commands in parallel using templates.

I wanted to share it since it might be a useful simple command for many people.

  • @thevoidzeroOP
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    15 months ago

    {1…10…2}

    Wow, that’s nice to know. I guess my program will at least make it easier since you can type it in a more humane way, but not essential.

    • @69420
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      25 months ago

      There’s also seq:

      $ seq 1 2 10
      

      This will print the numbers starting from 1, incrementing by 2 until you get to 10.

      • @thevoidzeroOP
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        15 months ago

        Seq will only print one sequence, though. The program’s focus is discontinuous range. Something like: 1:2:10,20:2:30