Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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?
Hmm. I must have had unusual PATH settings when I did that. The very latest coreutils tools are normally first in my PATH. Now I see the desired behavior. Thanks.
