Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 21:27:38 +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: <199908291927.VAA15064@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
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Tim Vanderhoek wrote in list.freebsd-stable:
> 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
That works, but there is an exec: ``['' is not built-in.
Regards
Oliver
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