Draw a Horizontal and Vertical line on UNIX

allways4u21 · #1 (**permalink**) 02-09-2009

I want to draw a horizontal and vertical line on Unix. Please suggest some solution.

ddreggors · #2 (**permalink**) 02-09-2009

Please give more details...

There are many ways to do this, one could open Open Office Draw or Gimp and draw a horizontal/vertical line. One could create a c++ application that draws a line (vertical/horizontal) on the screen, or many other various ways one could "draw a line" in Unix.

There is just no way to get what you are trying to do from the lines you wrote.

allways4u21 · #3 (**permalink**) 02-09-2009

I want a graph look like

12:00 3:00
Line |_________|

suggestion some solution

ddreggors · #4 (**permalink**) 02-09-2009

Where is the data for the graph coming from?

Are you just manually creating a graph in a graphic application?

Are you asking for a log analysis tool that will create a graph?

There is really no information here to know what you want. I am sorry really, but without more information I doubt anyone can help you as we do not fully understand what you need.

angheloko · #5 (**permalink**) 02-09-2009

Yeah, I think you should need to be more specific and detailed with your question. But if all you need to do is print a simple horizontal/vertical line then you can try the ff.:

Code:

yes "|" | head -100 # Vertical line

or

Code:

yes "_" | head -100 # Horizontal line

or

Code:

while (( i <= 100 )); do
printf "_"
(( i = i + 1 ))
done

or

Code:

while (( i <= 100 )); do
printf "|"
(( i = i + 1 ))
done

allways4u21 · #6 (**permalink**) 02-09-2009

Thanks angheloko, tell me one more thing

12:00

Line |__________|

How to write 12:00 on 1st spot and 3:00 on 2nd

angheloko · #7 (**permalink**) 02-09-2009

I'm not sure what you're getting at or what your desired output really is but if you just need to display:

Code:

12:00 3:00
Line |_________|

Then just:

Code:

echo "12:00 3:00"
echo "Line |__________|"

Like I said earlier, you need to post more details man.

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