breaking a word into chars

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1

to break a word into characters..

Eg UNIX to U N I X

2

Here is one way to do it.

sed -e "s/[[:alnum:]]/& /g"
3

But if given a name UNIX

i shud display it as

U U N N
U U N N N
U U N NN
U U N N etc..... hw to do this

4

Is this homework ?

5

i gave one result. but i need to be optimised..

echo `sed -e "s/[[:alnum:]]/& \t/g" banner | tr ' ' '\n' ` 1> banner

for i in `cat banner`
do
banner $i | sed 's/#/'$i'/g'
done

help me with it..

6

I cant make any pattern out of it.
Tell us exactly the output you expect for the input UNIX.

7

completely agrees with vino...there is no pattern of displaying the every character.......
even u can use FOLD option .....to extract character by character....