Shell Programming and Scripting

Try to imagine a flag:
nnnnx
nnnxx
nnxxx
nxxxx

now imagine how it will output:
4 times the "n"and 1 times "x"
3 times "n"and" 2 times" x "
.. etc. ..

rhombus is the same only instead of "n" is there
gap "and " x "is a few times to form the correct shape


Can you help how write it please??

homework?

Little yes, but i am beginner and i want learn how to it...
I have this:
a=1
b=1


while [ $b -lt 8 ]; do
echo -n "H"
b=$((b+1))
done
echo ""

while [ $a -lt 8 ]; do
echo -n "X"
a=$(( a+1 ))
done
echo ""

I dont know how to it

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I need help please

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