Shell Programming and Scripting

printf "THEN ( ${SEARCHPATTB} = Hour[${NTIMEB}] = ${CALTOTB} ) %8s => %8s NOW ( ${SEARCHPATT} = Hour[${NTIMEB}] = ${CALTOT} ) %7s => %7s Reduced By: %7s -${RESULT}"\\n

THEN ( Thu Jan 28 = Hour[02] = 27924 )          =>          NOW ( Thu Feb 04 = Hour[02] = 27018 )         =>         Reduced By:         -3.24452
THEN ( Thu Jan 28 = Hour[03] = 8663 )          =>          NOW ( Thu Feb 04 = Hour[03] = 7396 )         =>         Reduced By:         -14.6254

sep='          =>          '
while gather variable values
do	printf 'THEN ( %s = Hour[%s] = %-8d )%sNOW ( %s = Hour[%s]= %-8d )%sReduced By: %15.6f\n' \
	    "$SEARCHPATTB" "$NTIMEB" "$CALTOTB" "$sep" "$SEARCHPATT" "$NTIMEB" "$CALTOT" "-$RESULT"
done

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# @(#) s1       Demonstrate text column vertical alignment, align.
# For align source, see:
# http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~kinzler/align/

# Utility functions: print-as-echo, print-line-with-visual-space, debug.
# export PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin"
LC_ALL=C ; LANG=C ; export LC_ALL LANG
pe() { for _i;do printf "%s" "$_i";done; printf "\n"; }
pl() { pe;pe "-----" ;pe "$*"; }
db() { ( printf " db, ";for _i;do printf "%s" "$_i";done;printf "\n" ) >&2 ; }
db() { : ; }
C=$HOME/bin/context && [ -f $C ] && $C align

FILE=${1-data1}

pl " Input data file $FILE:"
cat $FILE

pl " Results:"
align $FILE

exit 0

$ ./s1

Environment: LC_ALL = C, LANG = C
(Versions displayed with local utility "version")
OS, ker|rel, machine: Linux, 3.16.0-4-amd64, x86_64
Distribution        : Debian 8.3 (jessie) 
bash GNU bash 4.3.30
align 1.7.0

-----
 Input data file data1:
THEN ( Thu Jan 28 = Hour[02] = 27924 )          =>          NOW ( Thu Feb 04 = Hour[02] = 27018 )         =>         Reduced By:         -3.24452
THEN ( Thu Jan 28 = Hour[03] = 8663 )          =>          NOW ( Thu Feb 04 = Hour[03] = 7396 )         =>         Reduced By:         -14.6254

-----
 Results:
THEN ( Thu Jan 28 = Hour[02] = 27924 ) => NOW ( Thu Feb 04 = Hour[02] = 27018 ) => Reduced By: -3.24452
THEN ( Thu Jan 28 = Hour[03] =  8663 ) => NOW ( Thu Feb 04 = Hour[03] =  7396 ) => Reduced By:-14.6254