Hello friends
Please help me to display the content of a file in specific aligned manner.
for ex.
the content of the file may be
[code]
>$TEST
WELCOME
HI
HELLO
UNIX
SHELL
SCRIPTING
>$
I want to display the content like

.
TEST                      WELCOME        HI
HELLO                   UNIX                 SHELL
SCRIPTING   ....
.

If you had used code tags, you would have noticed it keeps spacing and indent format...

Ever considered using pr command ? (Its magic...)

Thanks

awk 'BEGIN{ORS=""} {printf("%-9s", $1)}' infile >outfile

But I need to print more than one word( say TEST , HI, HELLO) in a same line...
Like matrix format

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Sdf

Thanks for the help

I need the counter to be reseted when starting of every line..I mean the output line

Are there several files and for every file the longest word shall be the measure for the field length?

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@ rajmohan146

This script determines the longest word of the file and paddes the rest of the field with empty spaces according to the longest word of the file:

awk '{a[i++]=$1; if(length($1) > length(max)) max=$1;l=length(max)}  END{ for(j=1; j<=i;j++) printf("%"(l+1)"s,",a[j-1])}' infile > outfile

      TEST,   WELCOME,        HI,     HELLO,      UNIX,     SHELL, SCRIPTING,