I was working on something and needed to output the string n times. I have required this even to print a line with ’-’ or ’=’ but this time I badly wanted it in bash. So I searched google and found this:
printf ”Amit Agarwal%.0s” {1..5}
Explanations and other examples: <a href="http://superuser.com/questions/86340/linux-command-to-repeat-a-string-n-times">http://superuser.com/questions/86340/linux-command-to-repeat-a-string-n-times<h6 class="zemanta-related-title" style="font-size: 1em;">Related articles by Zemanta <ul class="zemanta-article-ul"> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://www.rateitall.com/i-3177235-flat-rate-us-terminations.aspx">1 reviews of Flat-Rate US Terminations (rateitall.com) <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://www.
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