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08-07-2002

FIRE

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printf command

I want to make a logfile with error messages, like this:
(collumms: CUSTNR DATE TIME ERROR MESSAGE)

Code:

 
102      20020807 135417 1 Uptime server is more than 6 months
5        20020808 111335 3 Backup not Ok!
2001     20020808 120428 6 Free space at server1 is less than 20%
etcetera

I made this script:

Code:

CUSTNR=101
DATE=`date +%Y%m%d`
TIME=`date +%H%M%S` 
ERROR=1
MESSAGE="Uptime server is more than 6 months"

printf "%-8s %-10s %-6s %-6s %-80s\n" $CUSTNR $DATE $TIME $ERROR $MESSAGE >> error.log

But the variabele MESSAGE is printed wrong. The logfile looks something likes this:

Code:

 
102      20020807 135417 1 Uptime 
server   is       more   than 6 months

One of the problems are the spaces between de words in the MESSAGE strings.
How can I solve this/these problems?

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