Hi, Vivek Kumar <vivek@gorave.net> writes: > Hi, > > Is there any other command to print any character say "*" 80 times.. > > like echo "******************************" > (In bsh or ksh) > > Is there any short command ?? I guess that there are a lot of possibilites. One of them is $ for i in `seq 1 80` ; do echo -n \* ; done Hope this helps, Jaume -- Please answer to the group/list. Don't CC me.