* Kirk Strauser ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031101 09:07]:
> At 2003-10-31T19:50:17Z, Vivek Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > Is there any other command to print any character say "*" 80 times..
> 
> Ooh!  My turn:
> 
>     $ yes '*' | head -n 60 | xargs echo | sed 's/ //g'
> 
> I'm sure that's optimizable somehow, but I haven't really looked at it yet.

yes '*' | head -n 80 | tr -d '\n'

good times,
Vineet
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