Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Pádraig Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... >> Another thing I just noticed. I would expect the precision >> of all output in the following command to be to 2 decimal places not 1: >> $ seq 0.00 0.01 0.90 | grep "\.[0-9]$" >> 0.1 >> 0.2 >> 0.3 >> 0.4 >> 0.5 >> 0.6 >> 0.7 >> 0.8 >> 0.9 > > Well, at least with the very latest from coreutils and libc6-2.5-10 > from Debian unstable, I get what you (and I) would expect: > > $ seq 0.00 0.01 0.90 | grep '\.[0-9]$' > $ > > However, with ubuntu's 2.5-0ubuntu14, I do see the same offending behavior > you quote above.
I don't. I get the expected behavior. I compiled on Ubuntu 7.04 with libc6 2.5-0ubuntu14. This is on an x86-64 platform; perhaps that's the difference? Or perhaps you were using the Ubuntu-supplied seq, which is coreutils 5.97?
