Horizontal line on the console?

Question

I want to print a horizontal line to the console. At the moment, I use -----, but there are small spaces between the single characters.

Is there a better character I might use?

_ is not a viable option, as it is not vertically centered. Is there something like a middlescore, strikethrough (or whatever it's name is) character?

Answer 1

Hyphen         ---------------------
Underscore     _____________________
EM Dash        —————————————————————
Horizontal Bar ―――――――――――――――――――――
Horizontal Box ─────────────────────

There is a big list of characters to try over at wikipedia.

The horizontal box drawing character is my recommendation. It is designed for this purpose

Answer 2

With bash, to display a horizontal rule the size of your window you can use:

printf %"$COLUMNS"s | tr " " "-"

With zsh, you could avoid the tr:

printf '—%.0s' {1..$COLUMNS} 

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_{NOTE: I know this is not what OP wants, but it is what I think someone from Google could be seeking.}

Answer 3

Unicode character \u2500 solved it for me. According to Wikipedia it is for box drawings light horizontal, which is exactly what I need :-)

Thanks @Gusdor for pointing me to the correct Wikipedia article!