Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 15:28:52 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Interesting ways to print 3000 spaces... Message-ID: <v04210105b3ef39a9c7ec@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <199908291459.QAA09297@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> References: <199908291459.QAA09297@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
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At 4:59 PM +0200 8/29/99, Oliver Fromme wrote:
>Good point. There's an even shorter solution in zsh, which
>doesn't require 3000 calls to the echo function:
>
> echo -n ${(l:3000:)x+}
>
>Your turn. :)
In bash, type
echo '
then an esc character, then the number 3000,
then a blank, a closing single-quote, and a return.
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Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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