From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Sep 1 21:48:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from thneed.ubergeeks.com (thneed.ubergeeks.com [209.145.74.245]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4286B14D68 for ; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 21:48:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adrian@ubergeeks.com) Received: from localhost (adrian@localhost) by thneed.ubergeeks.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA01171 for ; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 00:48:00 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from adrian@ubergeeks.com) X-Authentication-Warning: thneed.ubergeeks.com: adrian owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 00:47:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Adrian Filipi-Martin Reply-To: Adrian Filipi-Martin To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Interesting ways to print 3000 spaces... In-Reply-To: <199908291431.QAA08474@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- [ adrian@ubergeeks.com -- Ubergeeks Consulting -- http://www.ubergeeks.com/ ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message