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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting justifying the fields Post 302163195 by quintet on Thursday 31st of January 2008 08:09:00 AM
Old 01-31-2008
i dont see the justications in ur message..
does this help?

awk '{printf ("%8s%8s%8s%8s%8s\n",$1,$2,$3,$4,$5);}' sample

Quote:
Originally Posted by shary
hi experts,
i just need a help that my script is generating the output which i will mentioned below but the fileds are not justified the alignment is disturbed.

0 8718 8718 0 8777
1 7450 7450 0 7483
2 5063 5063 0 5091
3 3840 3840 0 3855
4 3129 3129 0 3142
5 2400 2400 0 2419
6 2597 2597 0 2604
7 3055 3055 0 3078
8 4249 4249 0 4266
9 4927 4927 0 4957
10 8920 8920 0 8978
11 19567 19567 0 19675
12 15249 15249 0 15330
13 13930 13930 0 14015
14 13694 13694 0 13742
15 13066 13066 0 13122
16 12477 12477 0 12548
17 12791 12791 0 12855
18 13754 13754 0 13842
19 13181 13181 0 13259
20 12991 12991 0 13048
21 12435 12435 0 12484
22 13545 13545 0 13624
23 14584 14584 0 14656
total 235612 235612 0 236850

so at the end i just want the output in the correct format and justified like.
0 8718 8718 0 8777
1 7450 7450 0 7483
2 5063 5063 0 5091
3 3840 3840 0 3855
4 3129 3129 0 3142
5 2400 2400 0 2419
6 2597 2597 0 2604
7 3055 3055 0 3078
8 4249 4249 0 4266
9 4927 4927 0 4957
10 8920 8920 0 8978
11 19567 19567 0 19675
12 15249 15249 0 15330
13 13930 13930 0 14015
14 13694 13694 0 13742
15 13066 13066 0 13122
16 12477 12477 0 12548
17 12791 12791 0 12855
18 13754 13754 0 13842
19 13181 13181 0 13259
20 12991 12991 0 13048
21 12435 12435 0 12484
22 13545 13545 0 13624
23 14584 14584 0 14656
total 235612 235612 0 236850

so please kindly tell me that how i can justfied te filelds properly though shell script.
 

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SYNOPSIS

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