Re: print N times

I think Thierry's got the right answer (to keep sed in the picture I'd
replace `head -n 4` with `sed 4q`) but if you want a repeater in pure sed
you can

   N=3; sed -E ":a;h;  s/((\n[^\n]*){$((N-1))}).*/\1/;  t;G;ba"

on GNU/anything, I dunno whether the {0} stunt for N=1 works on other seds.

On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 7:16 AM, Scott Walters [email protected]
[sed-users] <[email protected]> wrote:

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> Hello,
> A  theoretical question.echo  abcd |  sed 'p;p;p'      prints the word
> "abcd" 4 times.Is there a simpler way to print a word N times ( N=large
> number) by NOT using the "p" command N-1 times.it has to be simple like
> we use in a regular for loop.
> thanksScott W
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