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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Efficiently Repeat Text Post 302415557 by DeCoTwc on Thursday 22nd of April 2010 11:15:23 PM
Old 04-23-2010
What I do in many of my scripts is create a function at the beginning called separator and then whenever I need to separate things, I just call on it.

Code:
$cat example
separator () #Function that draws separator
    {
        printf "${LB}==============================================================================================================${N}\n"
    }
separator 
echo "This is an example"
separator 

$./example
==============================================================================================================
This is an example
==============================================================================================================

Edit: The {LB} and {N} are there because in the script I copied this out of, I was using ANSI colour codes to colour the separator.
 

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tac

TAC(1)								   User Commands							    TAC(1)

NAME

       tac - concatenate and print files in reverse

SYNOPSIS

       tac [OPTION]... [FILE]...

DESCRIPTION

       Write each FILE to standard output, last line first.

       With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.

       Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.

       -b, --before
	      attach the separator before instead of after

       -r, --regex
	      interpret the separator as a regular expression

       -s, --separator=STRING
	      use STRING as the separator instead of newline

       --help display this help and exit

       --version
	      output version information and exit

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SEE ALSO

       rev(1)

       Full documentation at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/tac>
       or available locally via: info '(coreutils) tac invocation'

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