[lug] Fwd: Simple counter?

[Jeffrey S. Haemer]

> I inferred that the original poster was looking for more of a shell
> script level solution, but I might have been jumping to conclusions
> there...


The original poster is looking for an existing command that produces
sequential integers, one per call.

His motivation is a conviction that in the past thirty or forty years, *
someone* must have contributed a standard tool/package that does this,
coupled with embarrassment that he doesn't know it off the top of his head.

A shell one-liner would be an okay substitute: something intermediate
between "echo $RANDOM" and "echo
9<http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2001-10-25/>"
.  :-) (Thanks, Anthony.)

Sure, there are edge-cases, some not obscure: "If we call it a bunch, can't
the numbers get awfully big?" But geez, ....

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