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From: woods@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (Warren D. Swan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: FANCY BANNER
Message-ID: <2656@cbnewsc.ATT.COM>
Date: 23 Aug 89 22:18:47 GMT
References: <730@idsssd.UUCP>
Reply-To: woods@cblph.ATT.COM (Warren D. Swan)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <730@idsssd.UUCP> bruce@idsssd.UUCP (Bruce T. Harvey) writes:
>In article <10650068@hpisod2.HP.COM>, decot@hpisod2.HP.COM (Dave Decot) writes:
>> Hey, that's a good comp.unix.question.
>> ...
>
>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"

Excellent.  For the sake of discussion, we'll call this script: sign.

Just change the "$*" to "$@" and it'll behave even more like
a spiffed up version of banner.

(Do you see the difference?  If we left it as banner "$*"
[thanks for using the quotes, most people seem to forget them], then:

    sign @ "This is" "3 lines" "of info."

would cause output like:

    banner "This is 3 lines of info."

with the #s replaced by @s, thusly:

@@@@@@@                                                          @@@@@
   @     @    @     @     @@@@              @     @@@@          @     @
   @     @    @     @    @                  @    @                    @
   @     @@@@@@     @     @@@@              @     @@@@           @@@@@
   @     @    @     @         @             @         @               @
   @     @    @     @    @    @             @    @    @         @     @
   @     @    @     @     @@@@              @     @@@@           @@@@@

INSTEAD OF what was originally intended:

    banner "This is" "3 lines" "of info."

with the #s replaced by @s, which I won't reproduce here.  Other than that,
Good idea!)

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