Re: print command
Vivek Kumar <vivek@gorave.net> writes:
> Is there any other command to print any character say "*" 80 times..
>
> like echo "******************************"
> (In bsh or ksh)
>
> Is there any short command ??
Depending on what you're actually trying to do; Perl is the big hammer
you can throw at anything, of course.
perl -e 'print "*" x 80 . "\n"'
If you're just writing a script, I'd just hard-code the separator (or
maybe do without entirely).
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