#The command
jot - 1 10
#prints the integers from 1 to 10, while the command
jot 21 -1 1.00
#prints 21 evenly spaced numbers increasing from -1 to 1. The ASCII character set is generated with
jot -c 128 0
#and the strings xaa through xaz with
jot -w xa%c 26 a
#while 20 random 8-letter strings are produced with
jot -r -c 160 a z | rs -g 0 8
#Infinitely many yes's may be obtained through
jot -b yes 0
#and thirty ed(1) substitution commands applying to lines 2, 7, 12, etc. is the result of
jot -w %ds/old/new/ 30 2 - 5
#The stuttering sequence 9, 9, 8, 8, 7, etc. can be produced by suitable choice of step size, as in
jot - 9 0 -.5
#and a file containing exactly 1024 bytes is created with
jot -b x 512 > block
#Finally, to set tabs four spaces apart starting from column 10 and ending in column 132, use
expand -`jot -s, - 10 132 4`
#and to print all lines 80 characters or longer,
grep `jot -s "" -b . 80`