How Can I Find Five Numbers Between Two Numbers

Question

Suppose I have these two numbers: 800000 and 3200000. I want to find five numbers with an even difference in between these two numbers. Therefore, I want the output to be:

I know about the seq command but I'm not sure how to do this.

You need to specify the increment for `seq`. Use something like `$(( (3200000 - 800000) / 6 ))` as your incremental value. — doneal24, Jun 16 '22 at 17:39
If the number of values does not divide exactly into the range, the spacing get rounded and the last value may not appear at all. — Paul_Pedant, Jun 16 '22 at 19:04

Kusalananda · Answer 1 · 2022-06-16T19:30:04.297

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Using jot:

$ jot 7 800000 3200000
800000
1200000
1600000
2000000
2400000
2800000
3200000

The jot utility is available by default on most BSD systems but may also be installed on, e.g., Debian GNU/Linux and Ubuntu Linux. The apt package containing jot seems to be called athena-jot.

edited Jun 16 '22 at 19:30

answered Jun 16 '22 at 18:08

Kusalananda

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Thanks. On Gentoo, I installed the `jot` package. – Amarakon Jun 17 '22 at 00:05

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 19 '22 at 15:43

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Using any awk in any shell on every Unix box:

$ awk -v b=800000 -v e=3200000 -v n=5 'BEGIN{d=int((e-b)/(n+1)); for (i=b; i<e; i+=d) print i; print e}'
800000
1200000
1600000
2000000
2400000
2800000
3200000

answered Jun 19 '22 at 15:43

Ed Morton

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How Can I Find Five Numbers Between Two Numbers

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