Today I missed having seq (from the GNU coreutils package), which prints a sequence of numbers. I downloaded the source and compiled it without any problems. The following steps assume that you already have a ~/bin directory.
- Download the coreutils package [3.8mb download].
- If the package didn't expand autoatmically, open a Terminal in your downloads folder, and type tar -xjf coreutils-5.0.tar.bz2.
- Now it's time to compile the package:
% cd coreutils-5.0 % ./configure % make % cp src/seq ~/bin
% mkdir ~/bin/man % mkdir ~/bin/man/man1 % cp man/seq.1 ~/bin/man/man1Add export MANPATH=~/bin/man:$MANPATH to your .bashrc. You have to do something equivalent if you are using tcsh. Now man seq should work as well.
[robg adds: The coreutils package contains a ton of useful utilities, many of which are versions existing commands (ls, echo, cp, etc.). The package compiled successfully for me on 10.3, but I'm not planning on installing the full set of files; seq works as expected, though.]

