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I have this script that prints out a box frame with Asterisk signs, and I need to make it so that the script prints out multiple boxes under each other. How can I do it?

#!/bin/bash
#
echo -n "Please enter the amount of lines: "
read lines
echo -n "Please enter the amount of *: "
read sign
for((i = 1; i <= $lines; i++))
do
 echo -n "$i "
 if [ $i -eq 1 -o $i -eq $lines ]; then
 for((j = 1; j <= $sign; j++))
 do
 echo -n "* "
 done

 else
 echo -n "* "
 for((j = 2; j < $sign; j++))
 do
 echo -n " "
 done
 echo -n "* "
 fi
 echo
done
#end

If you just want the number of boxes as an input, it is just:

#!/bin/bash
#
echo -n "Please enter the amount of lines: "
read lines
echo -n "Please enter the amount of *: "
read sign
echo -n "Please enter the amount of boxes: "
read boxes
for ((h = 1; h <= $boxes; h++))
do
 for((i = 1; i <= $lines; i++))
 do
 echo -n "$i "
 if [ $i -eq 1 -o $i -eq $lines ]; then
 for((j = 1; j <= $sign; j++))
 do
 echo -n "* "
 done
 else
 echo -n "* "
 for((j = 2; j < $sign; j++))
 do
 echo -n " "
 done
 echo -n "* "
 fi
 echo
 done
done
#end

Not sure whether this is what you want though, because if you wrote your code you should have probably figured it out.