10-29-2008
how to generate var len strings of a given char
I am looking for a clever way to generate a string of a given chararcter repeated N times in a shell,
for example 12 of '-' would produce '------------'
I saw a good example in CFAJ book, a function called repeat that would run a cycle and concatenate a char to the string N times. It would defenitely work, but I am just in hope of some kind of a clever one-liner type of trick. Anybody have an idea?
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times(1) User Commands times(1)
NAME
times - shell built-in function to report time usages of the current shell
SYNOPSIS
sh
times
ksh
times
DESCRIPTION
sh
Print the accumulated user and system times for processes run from the shell.
ksh
Print the accumulated user and system times for the shell and for processes run from the shell.
On this man page, ksh(1) commands that are preceded by one or two * (asterisks) are treated specially in the following ways:
1. Variable assignment lists preceding the command remain in effect when the command completes.
2. I/O redirections are processed after variable assignments.
3. Errors cause a script that contains them to abort.
4. Words, following a command preceded by ** that are in the format of a variable assignment, are expanded with the same rules as a vari-
able assignment. This means that tilde substitution is performed after the = sign and word splitting and file name generation are not
performed.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
ksh(1), sh(1), time(1), attributes(5)
SunOS 5.10 15 Apr 1994 times(1)