How to repeat a dash (hyphen) in shell

Question

How can I repeat the character - n times in shell? I have read and tried this, but this does not work for -. It throws error invalid option

Answer 1

1. jot can do it, with no bashisms:

   jot -s '' -b - 100
   

2. seq too, but not as well, it needs a tr:

   seq -s- 100 | tr -d '[0-9]'