I could not find the exact way to do what i wanted as well.... I wanted anything on right justify to line up regardless of whatever is on the right justify. I also liked the look of the linux style rc scripts.
I beleve now the real answer is in the curses program.
I ended up writing my own function called spaces. It takes the word count from $1 and subtracts it from the stty column width. Regardless of terminal width, the right justify will line up.
Well that might be incorrect depending on what you have in $2.
Here is the code:
You would call it in a script with:
spaces "something on the left" "something on the right"
spaces "aaaa aaa aaaa" ok
This is what it looks like: I also embed color into variable for "OK" so it shows in green.
can you take input from another command and do printf?
such as
awk '{print $2,$1}' | sort -k1,1 -k2,2 | printf "%-10s,%15s"
this does not work.. but there must be a way.. please help me..
thank you. (3 Replies)
What is the output of the following program considering an x86 based parameter passing sequence where stack grows towards lower memory addresses and that arguments are evaluated from right to left:
int i=10;
int f1()
{
static int i = 15;
printf("f1:%d ", i);
return i--;
}
main()
{... (2 Replies)
Hi friends..
I am confused about awk printf option..
I have a comma separated file
88562848,21-JAN-08,2741079, -1188,-7433,TESTING
88558314,21-JAN-08,2741189, -1273,-7976,TESTING
and there is a line in my script ( written by someone else)
What is the use of command?
I guess... (10 Replies)
Hi,
I have just completed my first script (:D) and now i just need to format it with printf.
This is what I have:
#!/bin/ksh
TOTB=0
TOTF=0
TOTI=0
HOST=`hostname`
echo " FSYSTEM BLKS FREE INUSE MOUNTEDON"
df -m | grep -v ":"|grep -v Free|grep -v "/proc"| while read FSYSTEM... (2 Replies)
I am having a major problem with printf, The more I pad it, the less I see :(
The problem is in the first function, report
Am I ruining output somewhere? I wont print out the names propely, it cuts them off or deletes them completely :(
#!/bin/bash
report()
{
printf "%-10s" STUD# ... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I am using the following code to assign a count value to a variable. But I get nothing. Do you see anything wrong here.
I am new to all this.
$CTR=`remsh $m -l $MACHINES{$m} -n cat $output | grep -v sent | grep \"$input\" | sort -u | awk '{print $5}'`;
Upto sort - u it's... (2 Replies)
Hi, I have a scripting assignment for an intro to linux class and I'm really confused about how to do something seemingly simple.
I am supposed to Print the name of each file in the /data/dir16/subdir1 directory in the following format: "My name is: bin"
The desired output example looks like:... (1 Reply)
Hello,
I have some issue with qsub and the standard output : I launch a script that "echoes" the string "abc" and then executes a C program in which I print informations with the printf function ; the .o file contains "abc" but not the information displayed by printf. I also tried... (0 Replies)
The printf statement
pay_amount=$(printf "%013.3f" "$4")
working perfectly at one path(xxx/home/rsh) and showing error (printf: 216.000: invalid number) at another path(/opt/xxxx/xxxx).
what will be the reason?
thanks in advance (4 Replies)
Hi,
Could anyone explain me the logic behind the following program's output?
int main() {
printf("%d\n", printf("%d %d", 2, 2) & printf("%d %d", 2, 2));
printf("%d\n", printf("%d %d\n", 2, 2) & printf("%d %d\n", 2, 2));
}
Ans:
2 22 23
2 2
2 2
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Discussion started by: royalibrahim
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LEARN ABOUT PLAN9
printf
PRINTF(1) User Commands PRINTF(1)NAME
printf - format and print data
SYNOPSIS
printf FORMAT [ARGUMENT]...
printf OPTION
DESCRIPTION
Print ARGUMENT(s) according to FORMAT, or execute according to OPTION:
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
FORMAT controls the output as in C printf. Interpreted sequences are:
" double quote
\ backslash
a alert (BEL)
backspace
c produce no further output
e escape
f form feed
new line
carriage return
horizontal tab
v vertical tab
NNN byte with octal value NNN (1 to 3 digits)
xHH byte with hexadecimal value HH (1 to 2 digits)
uHHHH Unicode (ISO/IEC 10646) character with hex value HHHH (4 digits)
UHHHHHHHH
Unicode character with hex value HHHHHHHH (8 digits)
%% a single %
%b ARGUMENT as a string with '' escapes interpreted, except that octal escapes are of the form or NNN
%q ARGUMENT is printed in a format that can be reused as shell input, escaping non-printable characters with the proposed POSIX $''
syntax.
and all C format specifications ending with one of diouxXfeEgGcs, with ARGUMENTs converted to proper type first. Variable widths are han-
dled.
NOTE: your shell may have its own version of printf, which usually supersedes the version described here. Please refer to your shell's
documentation for details about the options it supports.
AUTHOR
Written by David MacKenzie.
REPORTING BUGS
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COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO printf(3)
Full documentation at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/printf>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) printf invocation'
GNU coreutils 8.28 January 2018 PRINTF(1)