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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Formatting output in columns Post 302346687 by cfajohnson on Sunday 23rd of August 2009 09:19:02 PM
Old 08-23-2009

Does this do what you want? (You may have to adjust the spacing.)

Code:
awk '{ x = $2 " " $3 " " $4; printf "%-10s %-30s %4d\n", $1, x, $5}'

 

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xmlindent(1)															      xmlindent(1)

NAME
xmlindent - XML stream reformatter SYNTAX
xmlindent [-o output file] [-i indent level] [-l max columns] [-n newline position] [-t] [-c] [-f] [-w] [-h] [-v] DESCRIPTION
XML Indent is a XML stream reformatter written in ANSI C. It is analogous to GNU indent. OPTIONS
-o output file Write indented XML to output file -i indent level Indent each level indent level spaces deeper -l max columns Wrap lines longer than max columns -t Use tabs instead of spaces -nas Suppress newline after start-tag -nae Suppress newline after end-tag -nbs Suppress newline before start-tag -nbe Suppress newline before end-tag -f Force newline on elements without children -w Overwrite original file -v Show version -h Show command line help AUTHORS
Pekka Enberg <penberg@iki.fi> Thomas Fischer <th.fischer@gmx.net> (man page) SEE ALSO
indent(1) Thomas Fischer 0.2.17 xmlindent(1)
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