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Old 05-14-2008
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That sounds like a simple printf specifier.


Code:
awk whatever ... |
awk '{ printf ("%5s%6s%9s%5s%3s%35s%s\n", $1, $2, $3, $4, $5, $6, $7) }'

(Sorry, might have miscalculated the width of a few fields. Modifying the earlier script to do this is itself is probably not too hard either.)

I don't see anything which would be reducing $6 to just two characters.