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From: bruce@idsssd.UUCP (Bruce T. Harvey)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: FANCY BANNER
Summary: In addition ...
Message-ID: <730@idsssd.UUCP>
Date: 21 Aug 89 13:29:21 GMT
References: <879@nsscb.UUCP> <10650068@hpisod2.HP.COM>
Organization: In*sight Distribution Systems, Hunt Valley, MD
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In article <10650068@hpisod2.HP.COM>, decot@hpisod2.HP.COM (Dave Decot) writes:
> Hey, that's a good comp.unix.question.
> 
> The answer is:
> 
>     banner "$2" | tr "#" "$1"
> 
> Dave Decot
> HP

And, for all you folks that use banner to produce more than one line of
output display at a time:

MYvar=$1
shift
banner "$*" | tr "#" "$MYvar"