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Re: [ILUG] expanding a string multiple times
From ilug-admin@linux.ie  Mon Aug 19 11:03:21 2002

> On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 10:27:57AM +0100, Padraig Brady wrote:
>>>On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 05:26:33PM +0100, Padraig Brady wrote:
>>>>How can I repeat a string an arbitrary number
>>>>I.E. I'm missing the repeat in the following:
> huh?  i missed all this.  do you want the string all on one line?
> the string repeated over and over, but with linebreaks in between,
> use sed to remove the newline i guess if you want.  the utilities yes,
> head and sed are on pretty much every unix.
Good. I actually looking at `yes` but I was in
slow mode on Friday and didn't consider combining with `head`
To remove newlines then handiest is: tr -d '\n'

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