DRAW square box

an anyone please! tell me how to draw a square box with ascii charaters
using while loops   , echoing ascii characters from octal values....In
unix bash shell
im using redhat 6.0  I need help!   I need to see an example from
somewhere
Thank you ..Peter

Pete <hdp...@sympatico.ca> writes:

> an anyone please! tell me how to draw a square box with ascii charaters
> using while loops   , echoing ascii characters from octal values....In
> unix bash shell

Cool idea!

first parameter is width (default 5), second is length (default width)


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#!/bin/bash

WIDTH=$1
WIDTH=${WIDTH:-5}

LENGTH=$2
LENGTH=${LENGTH:-${WIDTH}}

i=0

echo -n ' '
while [ $i -lt `expr ${WIDTH} - 2` ]; do
    i=`expr $i + 1`
    echo -n "_"
done
echo

i=0

while [ $i -lt `expr ${LENGTH} - 1` ]; do
    i=`expr $i + 1`
    echo -n "|"
    j=0
    while [ $j -lt `expr ${WIDTH} - 2` ]; do
	j=`expr $j + 1`
	echo -n ' '
    done
    echo "|"
done

i=0

echo -n "|"
j=0
while [ $j -lt `expr ${WIDTH} - 2` ]; do
    j=`expr $j + 1`
    echo -n "_"
done
echo "|"

echo
=============8<===============================

HTH :-)

-- 
David Riley 		dav...@dmriley.demon.co.uk
ObAscii: No such file or directory
core dumped

On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, Pete wrote:

> an anyone please! tell me how to draw a square box with ascii charaters
> using while loops   , echoing ascii characters from octal values....In
> unix bash shell
> im using redhat 6.0  I need help!   I need to see an example from
> somewhere
> Thank you ..Peter

wtf would you want to do that?  

m.
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On Tue, 12 Oct 1999 11:49:31 +1000, mostyn <mos...@ren.ecr.mu.oz.au>
wrote:

>On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, Pete wrote:
>
>> an anyone please! tell me how to draw a square box with ascii charaters
>> using while loops   , echoing ascii characters from octal values....In
>> unix bash shell
>> im using redhat 6.0  I need help!   I need to see an example from
>> somewhere
>> Thank you ..Peter
>
>wtf would you want to do that?  

Because it's geeky. 

.oO(*)Oo. Hey! I made a tiara!


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No because Im had to do it in my unix class it's part of a menu that takes
user input
to define the width and height of the box that will  become a menu of some
type
i was having trouble making it so this guy helped me out and he's F____in good
too!

Jan-Erik Finnberg wrote:

> On Tue, 12 Oct 1999 11:49:31 +1000, mostyn <mos...@ren.ecr.mu.oz.au>
> wrote:
>
> >On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, Pete wrote:
> >
> >> an anyone please! tell me how to draw a square box with ascii charaters
> >> using while loops   , echoing ascii characters from octal values....In
> >> unix bash shell
> >> im using redhat 6.0  I need help!   I need to see an example from
> >> somewhere
> >> Thank you ..Peter
> >
> >wtf would you want to do that?
>
> Because it's geeky.
>
> .oO(*)Oo. Hey! I made a tiara!
>
> --
> Jan-Erik Finnberg    whe...@icenet.no.spam.please.fi     ICQ:49316651
>
> Check out my FFVII web page at http://www.saunalahti.fi/~wheany/FFVII/
> for "official" FF7 Midis, FF7 text viewer by CzarDragon, DCodelgp by ME
> and not much more!