fish-shell/sphinx_doc_src/cmds/string-repeat.rst
Johannes Altmanninger 08eac28bd8 Add individual documentation pages for string's subcommands
This adds string-x.rst for each subcommand x of string. The main page
(string.rst) is not changed, except that examples are shown directly after
each subcommand.  The subcommand sections in string.rst are created by
textual inclusion of parts of the string-x.rst files.

Subcommand man pages can be viewed with either of:

```
man string collect
man string-collect
string collect <press F1 or Alt-h>
string collect -h
```

While `string -h ...` still prints the full help.

Closes #5968
2019-11-07 09:54:25 +01:00

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string-repeat - multiply a string
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Synopsis
--------
.. BEGIN SYNOPSIS
::
string repeat [(-n | --count) COUNT] [(-m | --max) MAX] [(-N | --no-newline)] [(-q | --quiet)] [STRING...]
.. END SYNOPSIS
Description
-----------
.. BEGIN DESCRIPTION
``string repeat`` repeats the STRING ``-n`` or ``--count`` times. The ``-m`` or ``--max`` option will limit the number of outputted char (excluding the newline). This option can be used by itself or in conjunction with ``--count``. If both ``--count`` and ``--max`` are present, max char will be outputed unless the final repeated string size is less than max, in that case, the string will repeat until count has been reached. Both ``--count`` and ``--max`` will accept a number greater than or equal to zero, in the case of zero, nothing will be outputed. If ``-N`` or ``--no-newline`` is given, the output won't contain a newline character at the end. Exit status: 0 if yielded string is not empty, 1 otherwise.
.. END DESCRIPTION
Examples
--------
.. BEGIN EXAMPLES
Repeat Examples
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
::
>_ string repeat -n 2 'foo '
foo foo
>_ echo foo | string repeat -n 2
foofoo
>_ string repeat -n 2 -m 5 'foo'
foofo
>_ string repeat -m 5 'foo'
foofo
.. END EXAMPLES