Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 01:03:51 -0700 From: "Alastair D'Silva" <deece@newmillennium.net.au> To: <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Interesting ways to print 3000 spaces... Message-ID: <001d01bef2be$377560e0$6b6d08cb@omen.com.au> References: <199908291459.QAA09297@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
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For a low-tech solution . . . how about setting your screen width to 100
chars and holding space down till 30 lines have passed? *g*
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----- Original Message -----
From: Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
To: <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Sunday, 29 August 1999 7:59
Subject: Re: Interesting ways to print 3000 spaces...
> 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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