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kevin lyda wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 10:27:57AM +0100, Padraig Brady wrote:
> 
>>>On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 05:26:33PM +0100, Padraig Brady wrote:
>>>
>>>>How can I repeat a string an arbitrary number
>>>>of times in bash/sed/...
>>>>
>>>>I.E. I'm missing the repeat in the following:
>>>>
>>>>STRING="> "
>>>>NUMBER=3
>>>>PREFIX=repeat $STRING $NUMBER
>>>>echo $PREFIX
>>>
> 
> huh?  i missed all this.  do you want the string all on one line?
> 
> the string repeated over and over, but with linebreaks in between,
> this works:
> 
>     yes "$STRING" | head -"$NUMBER"
> 
> use sed to remove the newline i guess if you want.  the utilities yes,
> head and sed are on pretty much every unix.

Good. I actually looking at `yes` but I was in
slow mode on Friday and didn't consider combining with `head`

To remove newlines then handiest is: tr -d '\n'

thanks,
Pádraig.


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