On Sun, 2011-01-02 at 14:27 -0800, S Mathias wrote:
$ ASDF=hello; a=0; a=$(( 70 - $(echo $ASDF | awk '{print
length}') )); echo "$a $ASDF"$(for i in {1..$a}; do printf ".";
done)
65 hello.
$
Why doesn't it print:
65 hello.................................................................
You wrote: for i in {1..$a}
I think you mean: for ((i=1;i<$a;i++))
Cheers.
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