3 Jan
2011
3 Jan
'11
12:05 a.m.
On 1/2/11 4:27 PM, 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.................................................................
What am i missing?
Order of operations. Brace expansion happens before variable substitution (echo $i to see the actual value you are getting).
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