Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 14:57:02 -0400 From: Tim Vanderhoek <vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Interesting ways to print 3000 spaces... Message-ID: <19990829145702.A45450@ppp18415.on.bellglobal.com> In-Reply-To: <199908291431.QAA08474@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>; from Oliver Fromme on Sun, Aug 29, 1999 at 04:31:58PM %2B0200 References: <199908291431.QAA08474@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
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On Sun, Aug 29, 1999 at 04:31:58PM +0200, 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
Actually, with our /bin/sh you can I think avoid execing and do this,
c=1
while [ $c -le 3000 ]
do
c=$(($c + 1))
echo -n ' '
done
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