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Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 15:27:18 +0200
From: tartifola@gmail.com
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Subject: generate series of strings
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Hi,
is there a way to obtain from the command line a series of strings like

(1:3) (4:6) (7:9)...

always with the same increment. I'm playing with 'seq' and 'sed' but
perhaps it's not the best approach. 
Thanks,
A.