[CentOS] repeat command

[Markus Falb]

On 02.Mai.2013, at 23:37, Alfred von Campe wrote:

> On May 2, 2013, at 17:34, Michael Mol wrote:
> 
>> On 05/02/2013 05:05 PM, Matt wrote:
>>> There is a unix command called repeat.
>>> 
>>> repeat 10 some_command
>>> 
>>> Basically repeats some command ten times.  Is it available on Centos 6
>>> and what package provides it?
>> 
>> # yum whatprovides "*bin/repeat"
>> [snip]
>> No Matches found
> 
> I was going to post the same information about finding out with "yum whatprovides".
> FWIW, repeat is a built-in command in tcsh.  Maybe that's where you've seen it before.

You could use that with CentOS

$ csh -c "repeat 10 ..."
$ tcsh -c "repeat 10 …"

$ rpm -qf /bin/tcsh
tcsh-6.17-24.el6.x86_64
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Markus