Vivek Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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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David Maze         [EMAIL PROTECTED]      http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/
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