On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 02:50:17PM -0500, Vivek Kumar wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there any other command to print any character say "*" 80 times..
>
> like echo "******************************"
> (In bsh or ksh)
>
> Is there any short command ??
A possible not good way to do this in bash:
for x in `seq 80`; do echo -n "*"; done ; echo
the last echo is to get the newline to print.
In perl you could do:
perl -e 'for(1..80){print "*";}print "\n";'
Technically that is shorter than:
echo "********************************************************************************"
But not by much...
Bijan
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