Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 20:02:09 +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: <199908291802.UAA13335@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
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Replying to myself...
> [...]
> There would be another nice solution possible, but...
>
> printf '\t' | expand -3000
>
> Expand refuses to use tab stops > 256. :-(
> I think I'll fix that and submit a PR.
bin/13453
By the way, a friend of mine suggested the following as an
alternative. This is probably the easiest way to create
3000 spaces:
printf "%3000s"
Regards
Oliver
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