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How to Repeat a Character n Times in Bash

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Jun 8, 2021

What would you do if you needed to repeat a character such as – OR = multiple times while writing bash script. I needed a quick script to work on Linux, macOS, and FreeBSD server to repeat a string/character n times.  Here’s how I built it.
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