On 05/01/2011 11:39 AM, steve jenkin wrote: > Yesterday I wanted a short bash construct to write a line of dashes to > separate blocks of output, ie: > Attempt 1: > steve$ for i in {1..20};do echo -n "-";done;echo What about this one: for i in {1..50}; do echo -e '\e(0q\e(B\c';done;echo :-) Brett -- /) _ _ _/_/ / / / _ _// /_)/</= / / (_(_/()/< ///