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Date:      Thu, 2 Sep 1999 00:47:55 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Adrian Filipi-Martin <adrian@ubergeeks.com>
To:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Interesting ways to print 3000 spaces...
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9909020046420.1118-100000@thneed.ubergeeks.com>
In-Reply-To: <199908291431.QAA08474@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>

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On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, Oliver Fromme wrote:

> There would be another nice solution possible, but...
> 
>    printf '\t' | expand -3000

	Try this instead:

	printf "%3000s" ""

	Adrian
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