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.\" @(#)jot.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.\"
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.Dd June 6, 1993
.Dt JOT 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm jot
.Nd print sequential or random data
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
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.Op Fl cnr
.Op Fl b Ar word
.Op Fl w Ar word
.Op Fl s Ar string
.Op Fl p Ar precision
.Op reps Op begin Op end Op s
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm Jot
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is used to print out increasing, decreasing, random,
or redundant data, usually numbers, one per line.
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.Pp
The following options are available:
.Bl -tag -width indent
.It Fl r
Generate random data instead of the default sequential data.
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.It Fl b Ar word
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Just print
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.Ar word
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repetitively.
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.It Fl w Ar word
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Print
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.Ar word
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with the generated data appended to it.
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Octal, hexadecimal, exponential,
.Tn ASCII ,
zero padded,
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and right-adjusted representations
are possible by using the appropriate
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.Xr printf 3
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conversion specification inside
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.Ar word ,
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in which case the data are inserted rather than appended.
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.It Fl c
This is an abbreviation for
.Fl w Ar %c .
.It Fl s Ar string
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Print data separated by
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.Ar string .
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Normally, newlines separate data.
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.It Fl n
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Do not print the final newline normally appended to the output.
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.It Fl p Ar precision
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Print only as many digits or characters of the data
as indicated by the integer
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.Ar precision .
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In the absence of
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.Fl p ,
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the precision is the greater of the precisions of
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.Ar begin
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and
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.Ar end .
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The
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.Fl p
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option is overridden by whatever appears in a
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.Xr printf 3
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conversion following
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.Fl w .
.El
.Pp
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The last four arguments indicate, respectively,
the number of data, the lower bound, the upper bound,
and the step size or, for random data, the seed.
While at least one of them must appear,
any of the other three may be omitted, and
will be considered as such if given as
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.Fl "" .
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Any three of these arguments determines the fourth.
If four are specified and the given and computed values of
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.Ar reps
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conflict, the lower value is used.
If fewer than three are specified, defaults are assigned
left to right, except for
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.Ar s ,
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which assumes its default unless both
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.Ar begin
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and
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.Ar end
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are given.
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.Pp
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Defaults for the four arguments are, respectively,
100, 1, 100, and 1, except that when random data are requested,
the seed,
.Ar s ,
is picked randomly.
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.Ar Reps
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is expected to be an unsigned integer,
and if given as zero is taken to be infinite.
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.Ar Begin
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and
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.Ar end
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may be given as real numbers or as characters
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representing the corresponding value in
.Tn ASCII .
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The last argument must be a real number.
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.Pp
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Random numbers are obtained through
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.Xr random 3 .
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The name
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.Nm
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derives in part from
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.Nm iota ,
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a function in APL.
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.Sh EXAMPLES
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The command
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.Dl jot 21 -1 1.00
.Pp
prints 21 evenly spaced numbers increasing from -1 to 1.
The
.Tn ASCII
character set is generated with
.Dl jot -c 128 0
.Pp
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and the strings xaa through xaz with
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.Dl jot -w xa%c 26 a
.Pp
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while 20 random 8-letter strings are produced with
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.Dl "jot -r -c 160 a z | rs -g 0 8"
.Pp
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Infinitely many
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.Em yes Ns 's
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may be obtained through
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.Dl jot -b yes 0
.Pp
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and thirty
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.Xr ed 1
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substitution commands applying to lines 2, 7, 12, etc. is
the result of
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.Dl jot -w %ds/old/new/ 30 2 - 5
.Pp
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The stuttering sequence 9, 9, 8, 8, 7, etc. can be
produced by suitable choice of step size,
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as in
.Dl jot - 9 0 -.5
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.Pp
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and a file containing exactly 1024 bytes is created with
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.Dl jot -b x 512 > block
.Pp
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Finally, to set tabs four spaces apart starting
from column 10 and ending in column 132, use
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.Dl expand -`jot -s, - 10 132 4`
.Pp
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and to print all lines 80 characters or longer,
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.Dl grep `jot -s \&"\&" -b \&. 80`
.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
The
.Nm
utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
The following diagnostic messages deserve special explanation:
.Bl -diag
.It "illegal or unsupported format '%s'"
The requested conversion format specifier for
.Xr printf 3
was not of the form
.Dl %[#][ ][{+,-}][0-9]*[.[0-9]*]?
where
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.Dq ?\&
must be one of
.Dl [l]{d,i,o,u,x}
or
.Dl {c,e,f,g,D,E,G,O,U,X}
.It "range error in conversion"
A value to be printed fell outside the range of the data type
associated with the requested output format.
.It "too many conversions"
More than one conversion format specifier has been supplied,
but only one is allowed.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr ed 1 ,
.Xr expand 1 ,
.Xr rs 1 ,
.Xr yes 1 ,
.Xr printf 3 ,
.Xr random 3