Re: Seq Segment Fault.

[Eric Blake]

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According to Ryan Whited on 9/18/2009 4:38 AM:
> #!/bin/bash
> for i in $(seq -w $NUM1 $NUM2)

Are you sure your segfault is in seq, or is it in bash?  You neglected to
mention which versions you were using:

bash --version
seq --version

However, it seems to me that your problem is that bash tries to slurp all
of $() into memory, and seq generated so much data that bash ran out of
memory (or overflowed its stack).  In other words, it is not a segfault in
seq, but bash that crashed, and because you exceeded the limits of what
your machine will support.

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