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Old 12-21-2005
jim mcnamara jim mcnamara is offline Forum Staff  
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Code:
#!/bin/ksh

newstart2="Mon Nov 11 01 00:00:00 2002"
printf "%-30s\n" "$newstart2"

$newstart2 without the quotes becomes a list of separate arguments for printf because a space is what printf wants to see between arguments.