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author | Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com> | 2016-07-27 16:35:04 +0200 |
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committer | Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com> | 2016-07-27 16:35:04 +0200 |
commit | feae86e913b4dfa4b5552e255fba290f99586949 (patch) | |
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diff --git a/src/usr.bin/jot/jot.1 b/src/usr.bin/jot/jot.1 index 7bd0675..628b07e 100644 --- a/src/usr.bin/jot/jot.1 +++ b/src/usr.bin/jot/jot.1 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: jot.1,v 1.19 2016/01/04 23:21:28 schwarze Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: jot.1,v 1.21 2016/07/17 04:15:25 tb Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: jot.1,v 1.2 1994/11/14 20:27:36 jtc Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1993 @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ .\" .\" @(#)jot.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93 .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: January 4 2016 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: July 17 2016 $ .Dt JOT 1 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -225,41 +225,6 @@ specifying an integer format: .Bd -literal -offset indent $ jot -w %d 6 1 10 0.5 .Ed -.Pp -For random sequences, the output format also influences the range -and distribution of the generated numbers: -.Bd -literal -offset indent -$ jot -r 100000 1 3 | sort -n | uniq -c -24950 1 -50038 2 -25012 3 -.Ed -.Pp -The values at the beginning and end of the interval -are generated less frequently than the other values. -There are several ways to solve this problem and generate evenly distributed -integers: -.Bd -literal -offset indent -$ jot -r -p 0 100000 0.5 3.5 | sort -n | uniq -c -33374 1 -33363 2 -33263 3 - -$ jot -w %d -r 100000 1 4 | sort -n | uniq -c -33306 1 -33473 2 -33221 3 -.Ed -.Pp -Note that with random sequences, all numbers generated will -be smaller than the upper bound. -The largest value generated will be a tiny bit smaller than -the upper bound. -For floating point formats, the value is rounded as described -before being printed. -For integer formats, the highest value printed will be one less -than the requested upper bound, because the generated value will -be truncated. .Sh EXAMPLES Print 21 evenly spaced numbers increasing from \-1 to 1: .Pp @@ -273,14 +238,9 @@ Generate the strings xaa through xaz: .Pp .Dl $ jot \-w xa%c 26 a .Pp -Generate 20 random 8-letter strings -(note that the character -.Sq { -comes after the character -.Sq z -in the ASCII character set): +Generate 20 random 8-letter strings: .Pp -.Dl "$ jot \-r \-c 160 a { | rs \-g0 0 8" +.Dl "$ jot \-r \-c 160 a z | rs \-g0 0 8" .Pp Infinitely many .Xr yes 1 Ns 's |