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Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 21:27:38 +0200 (CEST)
From: Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
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Subject: Re: Interesting ways to print 3000 spaces...
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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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