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0mp
df31a59323 jot.1: Explain default argument values more precisely
The way jot(1) defaults missing arguments doesn't match the behaviour
described in the manpage, which states that with fewer than 3 arguments
missing values are supplied from left to right.

In fact, with one or two arguments, the last (s which is step size or seed)
defaults to 1 (or -1 if begin and end specify a descending range), and then
omitted arguments are set to default starting with the leftmost until three
arguments are available.

This is why `jot 2 1000` prints 1000 and 1001 instead of 1000 and 100.

PR:		135475
Submitted by:	Jonathan McKeown <j.mckeown@ru.ac.za>
Approved by:	doc (bcr)
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21736
Event:		EuroBSDcon 2019
2019-09-21 15:01:11 +00:00
imp
7e6cabd06e Renumber copyright clause 4
Renumber cluase 4 to 3, per what everybody else did when BSD granted
them permission to remove clause 3. My insistance on keeping the same
numbering for legal reasons is too pedantic, so give up on that point.

Submitted by:	Jan Schaumann <jschauma@stevens.edu>
Pull Request:	https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/pull/96
2017-02-28 23:42:47 +00:00
allanjude
739c57d8c2 Fix missing AUTHOR section for jot(1), rs(1), and lam(1)
PR:		196786
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2115
Submitted by:	John A. Kunze (Author)
Approved by:	wblock (mentor)
MFC after:	1 week
Sponsored by:	ScaleEngine Inc.
2015-04-07 15:56:08 +00:00
joel
1d7fe3f6fd Remove superfluous paragraph macro. 2012-03-25 09:19:25 +00:00
joel
29af67e52c Remove the advertising clause from UCB copyrighted files in usr.bin. This
is in accordance with the information provided at
ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change

Also add $FreeBSD$ to a few files to keep svn happy.

Discussed with:	imp, rwatson
2010-12-11 08:32:16 +00:00
brian
cb476e3fa5 Fix stuttering sequences and reverse ranges
PR:		123635
Submitted by:	Ulrich Spörlein, uqs at spoerlein dot net
2010-06-02 07:47:29 +00:00
delphij
1650c19704 Add a reference to newly added seq(1) command.
Submitted by:	jilles
MFC after:	3 months
2010-02-20 00:16:44 +00:00
dds
41f3c2053f Use a more sensible default of 1 or -1 when only the start and
end values are specified.

PR:		bin/68981
Submitted by:	Stefan `Sec` Zehl
MFC after:	2 weeks
2006-11-06 15:11:50 +00:00
dds
c15edb9d96 Do What I Mean when the user asks for random integers or characters.
Up to now jot would fail to generate the last character in the range
or skew the integer distribution in a way that would generate the numbers
in the range's limits with half the probability of the rest.

This modification fixes the program, rather than documenting the
strange behavior, as suggested in docs/54879.

Also, correctly specify the range of random(3).

PR:		docs/54879
MFC after:	2 weeks
2006-11-06 13:55:11 +00:00
dds
571eb96dc6 Avoid negative array indices: an empty string can also be used
to specify a default value.
2006-11-06 11:03:43 +00:00
dds
dc4421d112 See also arc4random
PR:		docs/54879
MFC after:	2 weeks
2006-11-06 10:39:49 +00:00
dds
f4df3d376b Restore jot's ability to use a seed for producing a deterministic
sequence of random numbers.
This functionality was lost in revision 1.9 when the random number
generator was switched to arc4random.

PR:		docs/54879
MFC after:	2 weeks
2006-11-06 10:30:29 +00:00
cperciva
731fe330c9 Document that jot(1), rs(1), and lam(1) first appeared in 4.2BSD.
MFC after:	1 month
2006-10-20 04:31:01 +00:00
ru
7f3c7f0d46 Sort sections. 2005-01-18 13:43:56 +00:00
ru
6cc4b6c220 Added the EXIT STATUS section where appropriate. 2005-01-17 07:44:44 +00:00
ru
fb1d8b3724 Mechanically kill hard sentence breaks. 2004-07-02 22:22:35 +00:00
ru
352eaf673d mdoc(7) police: added missing markup bits, lowercased argument names. 2002-07-03 12:24:11 +00:00
charnier
ad8a79e6a5 Use `The .Nm utility' 2002-04-20 12:18:28 +00:00
ru
bde8ec1b70 mdoc(7) police: utilize the new .Ex macro. 2001-08-15 09:09:47 +00:00
dd
911ca14c87 Remove whitespace at EOL. 2001-07-15 08:06:20 +00:00
ru
e6cfc0711d Prepare for mdoc(7)NG. 2000-12-19 16:00:12 +00:00
ru
0d1334ca0c mdoc(7) police: use the new features of the Nm macro. 2000-11-20 19:21:22 +00:00
sheldonh
00f970ec43 Back out rev 1.11, about which bde had concerns, and instead implement
appropriate bounds-checking and typecasts based on our knowledge of
the desired conversion format specifier.

Simplify diagnostics and take care to print the correct conversion
format specifier when %l is involved.
2000-01-06 15:37:37 +00:00
peter
3b842d34e8 $Id$ -> $FreeBSD$ 1999-08-28 01:08:13 +00:00
sheldonh
a2b1df94ad Improve printf(3) conversion specifier parsing so that silly formats
aren't allowed and the right casts can be used for printf() statements.

Document the conversion specifier limitations and the fact that
arithmetic overflow causes a fatal error.

PR:	12611
Reported by:	Frode Vatvedt Fjeld <frodef@acm.org>
Reviewed by:	bde
1999-07-22 17:11:59 +00:00
nik
6578739ddb Add $Id$, to make it simpler for members of the translation teams to
track.

The $Id$ line is normally at the bottom of the main comment block in the
man page, separated from the rest of the manpage by an empty comment,
like so;

     .\"    $Id$
     .\"

If the immediately preceding comment is a @(#) format ID marker than the
the $Id$ will line up underneath it with no intervening blank lines.
Otherwise, an additional blank line is inserted.

Approved by:            bde
1999-07-12 20:24:20 +00:00
kris
e3601a838c Correct an error in a manpage example, add -Wall -W to Makefile (no
warnings given) and modify source to use arc4random() instead of random().

Reviewed by:	ache
1999-05-13 12:18:24 +00:00
steve
f00117c92b Random data is no longer based on the time of day, rather the random
number device.  Also clearly state that sequential data is the default.

PR:		5553
Submitted by:	Jonathan Hanna <pangolin@rogers.wave.ca>
1998-01-24 03:32:33 +00:00
charnier
b5becb6266 Mdoc'ify man page. 1997-11-03 07:45:33 +00:00
rgrimes
f9ab90d9d6 BSD 4.4 Lite Usr.bin Sources 1994-05-27 12:33:43 +00:00