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Re: printf to pad with spaces BUT trips over when data being padded

Michael Tosch

2006-01-06, 5:57 pm

Dundonald wrote:
> Greg Andrews wrote:
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> Greg, top man, thanks very much!
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I hope this was an example.
Otherwise better use printf without awk:

printf '%-20s\n' "$variable"

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