An alias for RETURNing 10 times?

Hello, Everyone:

I use the X window a lot on a Mac OS X (Version 10.6.8).

Very often, I knock the RETURN key a number of times to create a wide
enough space to separate the earlier displayed stuff in the the
window from the stuff that will display next. Although the command
"clear" does clear the window, but it does not create any space
between the old and new stuff.

So the question: Can I create a simple alias that would be equivalent
to knocking the RETURN key, say 10 or 20, times? The critical part of
the question is how to express the RETURN key in an alias expression.

Thank you for reading and replying!

--R.

In article
<8bedffc0-32a8-480e-9dd4->,
qquito <> wrote:

> Hello, Everyone:
>
> I use the X window a lot on a Mac OS X (Version 10.6.8).
>
> Very often, I knock the RETURN key a number of times to create a wide
> enough space to separate the earlier displayed stuff in the the
> window from the stuff that will display next. Although the command
> "clear" does clear the window, but it does not create any space
> between the old and new stuff.
>
> So the question: Can I create a simple alias that would be equivalent
> to knocking the RETURN key, say 10 or 20, times? The critical part of
> the question is how to express the RETURN key in an alias expression.
>
> Thank you for reading and replying!
>
> --R.

spaces () { for (( i=${1:-10}; i--; )) ; do printf "\n"; done }

"spaces N" will print N blank lines. "spaces" with no argument defaults
to N = 10.

--
Barry Margolin,
Arlington, MA
*** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***

In article
<8bedffc0-32a8-480e-9dd4-
>,
qquito <> wrote:

> Hello, Everyone:
>
> I use the X window a lot on a Mac OS X (Version 10.6.8).
>
> Very often, I knock the RETURN key a number of times to create a wide
> enough space to separate the earlier displayed stuff in the the
> window from the stuff that will display next. Although the command
> "clear" does clear the window, but it does not create any space
> between the old and new stuff.
>
> So the question: Can I create a simple alias that would be equivalent
> to knocking the RETURN key, say 10 or 20, times? The critical part of
> the question is how to express the RETURN key in an alias expression.
>
> Thank you for reading and replying!
>
> --R.

alias sep='echo -e "\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n"'

On 02-17-2012 19:50, qquito wrote:
> So the question: Can I create a simple alias that would be equivalent
> to knocking the RETURN key, say 10 or 20, times? The critical part of

perl -e 'print 10 * "\n";'

Shoot, I know I have done this before, and it is _similar_ to the above,
but the above is not quite right.

Or there's the odd-looking but simple
iMac:webtrees wgroleau$ echo "
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> " # that actually makes ten line ends.











iMac:webtrees wgroleau$


--
Wes Groleau

Don't get even; get odd!

Barry, Bob: Thank you both very much! I just tried the methods your
provided, and found both work perfectly. Many thanks! -R.