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From: Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
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Subject: Re: Interesting ways to print 3000 spaces...
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Kai Voigt wrote in list.freebsd-stable:
 > Oliver Fromme wrote:
 > > 
 > > When using zsh, it can be done without exec'ing anything
 > > (only using shell-builtins):
 > > 
 > >    for f in {1..3000}; do echo -n " "; done
 > 
 > % repeat 3000 echo -n " "

Good point.  There's an even shorter solution in zsh, which
doesn't require 3000 calls to the echo function:

   echo -n ${(l:3000:)x+}

Your turn.  :)

Regards
   Oliver

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