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03-23-2007
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adding spaces to a line
Is there any command to add spaces to a lline....say i need 50 spaces between the data like
Code:
"aaabbbccc dddeeefff" or may be like this "aaaabbbbbbcccccdddddeeeffff " your help is appreciated. 
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Code:
>cat file aaa bbb Code:
perl -e ' while (<>) { $a = " " x 20; $_ =~ s/ /$a/; print "$_" } ' file
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or for the second one you could do something like
Code:
perl -e ' while (<>) { $a = " " x 20; $_ =~ s/$/$a/; print "$_" } ' filename
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Code:
echo "aaa bbb" | awk '{ printf $1
for (i=0; i<50; i++) printf " "
print $2
} '
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Quote:
Code:
printf "%-49s " "data 1" "data 2" "data 3" ... printf "\n" Code:
printf "%s%50%" "data 1" " " "data 2" " " "data 3" " " ... printf "\n"
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