Glad the problem is solved with jot. Just to clarify ...
Is
seq really a bash command now? I don't find it mentioned in the bash man pages I looked at (though they're not the very latest). Both NetBSD and some Linux distributions have a stand-alone
seq(1) command. And bash has a construct (in newer versions anyway)
% echo {1..10}
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
which does a similar thing (in simple cases).