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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting shell script(Preferably awk or sed) to print selected number of columns from each row Post 302347224 by panyam on Tuesday 25th of August 2009 07:30:10 AM
Old 08-25-2009
Reddy,

Can You pls. post sample input and output your expecting .
 

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SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

       This pretty-prints a list of strings as a table.

OPTIONS

       The following command line options are available.

       -F, --field-sep sep
	   Separate columns using sep. Default is ":".

       -w, --width width
	   Width of each column. Default is 15 characters.

       -c, --columns cols
	   Number of columns. Default is 3.

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