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#!/bin/bash
# Print a series of numbers with letters used for the tens digit.
#
# This can be useful to determine how many columns wide a terminal is.  The
# program outputs 260 (10 * 26) chars.

letters="a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z"
numbers=$(seq 1 9)

for c in $letters; do
  for i in $numbers; do
    echo -n "$i"
  done

  echo -n "$c"
done

# Print newline
echo