[ILUG] expanding a string multiple times

[Padraig Brady]

Matthew French wrote:
> Padraig Brady said:
> 
>>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
>>and not as scalable to boot.
> 
> I find the following hack useful in bash:
> 
> out="$STRING"
> counter="#"
> while [ ${#counter} -lt $NUMBER ]
> do
>   out="$out$STRING"
>   counter="#$counter"
> done

yuck

> You could also do:
> 
> for i in `seq 1 $NUMBER`; do
>     out="$STRING$out"
> done

nice

Padraig.