Repeat Previous Character (REP)

The parameter n must be an integer greater than or equal to 1. If n is less than or equal to 0, adjust n to be 1. If n is omitted, n defaults to 1.

In xterm, only characters with single byte (less than decimal 256) are supported. In most other mainstream terminals, any character is supported.

Each repeated character behaves identically to if it was manually typed in. Therefore, soft-wrapping, margins, etc. all behave the same as if the character was typed.

The previously printed character is any character that is printed through any means. The previously printed character is not limited to characters a user manually types. If there is no previously typed character, this sequence does nothing.

printf "\033[1;1H" # move to top-left
printf "\033[0J" # clear screen
printf "A"
printf "\033[b"

|AAc_______|

cols=$(tput cols)
printf "\033[1;1H" # move to top-left
printf "\033[0J" # clear screen
printf "\033[${cols}G"
printf "A"
printf "\033[b"

|_________A|
|Ac________|