Use jot to Print Sequences

Today I Learned about jot, a command line utility that prints sequential or random data. Let's focus on the sequential bit.

jot takes arguments for reps, begin and end. So if we wanted to print the integers from 1 to 10, we'd do:

$ jot - 1 10
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10

Which is neat, but only so cool. What if we wanted to print 21 evenly spaced numbers between -1 and 1? That would be cooler:

$ jot 21 -1 1.00 #the 1.00 tells the output to be float, not int
-1.00
-0.90
-0.80
-0.70
-0.60
-0.50
-0.40
-0.30
-0.20
-0.10
-0.00
0.10
0.20
0.30
0.40
0.50
0.60
0.70
0.80
0.90
1.00

You can even print all the ASCII characters with:

jot -c 128 0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
:
;
<
=
>
?
@
A
B
C
...