#!/bin/bash # ruler # (CC) 2008 Ken Chasse, math at sizone dott org # # program to aid counting character positions # on any size terminal width=`stty size | cut -d " " -f2` tens=$[width / 10] for i in `seq 1 $tens`; do echo -n "123456789 " done extra=$[$width - $tens * 10] for i in `seq 1 $extra`; do j=$[$j+1] echo -n $j done echo for i in `seq 1 $tens`; do echo -n " $[$i-$i/10*10]"; done echo