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Old 05-14-2010
Bug Print a word specific number of times
Hi All,

I wanted to know if there is a shell command to print a word n number of times

The Input File is :
Code:
Cat 4
Bat 3
Zall 1
Kite 2

Output File required is :
Code:
Cat
Cat
Cat
Cat
Bat
Bat
Bat
Zall
Kite
Kite

Thanks in advance.
Last edited by radoulov; 05-14-2010 at 07:44 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags!
# 2  
Old 05-14-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by sam_2921
Hi All,

I wanted to know if there is a shell command to print a word n number of times

The Input File is :
Code:
Cat 4
Bat 3
Zall 1
Kite 2

Output File required is :
Code:
Cat
Cat
Cat
Cat
Bat
Bat
Bat
Zall
Kite
Kite

Thanks in advance.
Not sure of a "command" , something like this:

Code:
 
awk '{for(i=1;i<=$2;i++) print $1}' input_file

# 3  
Old 05-14-2010
Try this:
Code:
$ while read a b; do
until [ $b -eq 0 ]; do
echo $a
b=$(($b-1))
done
done <infile

# 4  
Old 05-14-2010
Yes:
Code:
perl -ane'print+($F[0]."\n")x$F[1]' infile

# 5  
Old 05-14-2010
Thanks to All. Smilie
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