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>>>Well, here's a solution using seq and sed - IMHO its a rather dim solution
>>>and it definitely dies if STRING contains / (and probably has other ways to
>>>die too) and a bash loop would certainly be faster, but you know how to do
>>>PREFIX=seq -s "" $NUMBER|sed "s/./$STRING/g"OA
> But it's such a crap colution anyway, why would you want to make it more
Give yourself credit :-) it's a nice solution,
with just 2 lightweight processes. The same thing
coded in shell loops wouldn't be nearly as elegant

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