Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 16:59:28 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Interesting ways to print 3000 spaces... Message-ID: <199908291459.QAA09297@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
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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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