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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting printf to format lines. Post 302374685 by Scrutinizer on Wednesday 25th of November 2009 08:17:04 AM
Old 11-25-2009
Code:
printf "%5d %-30s %-30s\n" "$arg3" "$arg2" "$arg1"

 

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FMT(1)								   User Commands							    FMT(1)

NAME
fmt - simple optimal text formatter SYNOPSIS
fmt [-WIDTH] [OPTION]... [FILE]... DESCRIPTION
Reformat each paragraph in the FILE(s), writing to standard output. The option -WIDTH is an abbreviated form of --width=DIGITS. Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. -c, --crown-margin preserve indentation of first two lines -p, --prefix=STRING reformat only lines beginning with STRING, reattaching the prefix to reformatted lines -s, --split-only split long lines, but do not refill -t, --tagged-paragraph indentation of first line different from second -u, --uniform-spacing one space between words, two after sentences -w, --width=WIDTH maximum line width (default of 75 columns) --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input. AUTHOR
Written by Ross Paterson. REPORTING BUGS
Report fmt bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/> Report fmt translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/> COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2010 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
The full documentation for fmt is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and fmt programs are properly installed at your site, the command info coreutils 'fmt invocation' should give you access to the complete manual. GNU coreutils 8.5 February 2011 FMT(1)
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