JOT(1) BSD General Commands Manual JOT(1)

NAME
     jjoott - print sequential or random data

SYNOPSIS
     jjoott [-ccnnrr] [-bb word] [-ww word] [-ss string] [-pp precision]
         [reps [begin [end [s]]]]

DESCRIPTION
     The jjoott utility is used to print out increasing, decreasing, random, or
     redundant data, usually numbers, one per line.

     The following options are available:

     -rr      Generate random data instead of the default sequential data.

     -bb word
             Just print word repetitively.

     -ww word
             Print word with the generated data appended to it.  Octal, hexa-
             decimal, exponential, ASCII, zero padded, and right-adjusted rep-
             resentations are possible by using the appropriate printf(3) con-
             version specification inside word, in which case the data are
             inserted rather than appended.

     -cc      This is an abbreviation for -ww %c.

     -ss string
             Print data separated by string.  Normally, newlines separate
             data.

     -nn      Do not print the final newline normally appended to the output.

     -pp precision
             Print only as many digits or characters of the data as indicated
             by the integer precision.  In the absence of -pp, the precision is
             the greater of the precisions of begin and end.  The -pp option is
             overridden by whatever appears in a printf(3) conversion follow-
             ing -ww.

     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 -.  Any three of
     these arguments determines the fourth.  If four are specified and the
     given and computed values of reps conflict, the lower value is used.  If
     fewer than three are specified, defaults are assigned left to right,
     except for s, which assumes its default unless both begin and end are
     given.

     Defaults for the four arguments are, respectively, 100, 1, 100, and 1,
     except that when random data are requested, the seed, s, is picked ran-
     domly.  The reps argument is expected to be an unsigned integer, and if
     given as zero is taken to be infinite.  The begin and end arguments may
     be given as real numbers or as characters representing the corresponding
     value in ASCII.  The last argument must be a real number.

     Random numbers are obtained through random(3).  The name jjoott derives in
     part from iioottaa, a function in APL.

EEXXAAMMPPLLEESS
     The command
           jot 21 -1 1.00

     prints 21 evenly spaced numbers increasing from -1 to 1.  The ASCII char-
     acter set is generated with
           jot -c 128 0

     and the strings xaa through xaz with
           jot -w xa%c 26 a

     while 20 random 8-letter strings are produced with
           jot -r -c 160 a z | rs -g 0 8

     Infinitely many yes's may be obtained through
           jot -b yes 0

     and thirty ed(1) substitution commands applying to lines 2, 7, 12, etc.
     is the result of
           jot -w %ds/old/new/ 30 2 - 5

     The stuttering sequence 9, 9, 8, 8, 7, etc. can be produced by suitable
     choice of step size, as in
           jot - 9 0 -.5

     and a file containing exactly 1024 bytes is created with
           jot -b x 512 > block

     Finally, to set tabs four spaces apart starting from column 10 and ending
     in column 132, use
           expand -`jot -s, - 10 132 4`

     and to print all lines 80 characters or longer,
           grep `jot -s "" -b . 80`

DIAGNOSTICS
     The jjoott utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.  The fol-
     lowing diagnostic messages deserve special explanation:

     iilllleeggaall oorr uunnssuuppppoorrtteedd ffoorrmmaatt ''%%ss''  The requested conversion format spec-
     ifier for printf(3) was not of the form
           %[#][ ][{+,-}][0-9]*[.[0-9]*]?
     where ``?'' must be one of
           [l]{d,i,o,u,x}
     or
           {c,e,f,g,D,E,G,O,U,X}

     rraannggee eerrrroorr iinn ccoonnvveerrssiioonn  A value to be printed fell outside the range
     of the data type associated with the requested output format.

     ttoooo mmaannyy ccoonnvveerrssiioonnss  More than one conversion format specifier has been
     supplied, but only one is allowed.

AUTHOR     John A. Kunze 

SEE ALSO
     ed(1), expand(1), rs(1), yes(1), printf(3), random(3)

BSD                              June 6, 1993                              BSD