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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting concatenate 'n' number of columns in a file Post 302460420 by Chubler_XL on Wednesday 6th of October 2010 06:56:30 PM
Old 10-06-2010
You need to put [ code] [/code ] tags around your examples so the formatting doesn't get lost.

I'd assume that the file contains just raw data and you want fixed width output. The printf command is probably what you want to use perhaps something like:

Code:
while read column
do
    printf "%-8s  "  "$column"
done < input.file
printf "\n"

Last edited by Chubler_XL; 10-06-2010 at 07:57 PM.. Reason: Fix typo
 

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db2_field_width

DB2_FIELD_WIDTH(3)							 1							DB2_FIELD_WIDTH(3)

db2_field_width - Returns the width of the current value of the indicated column in a result set

SYNOPSIS

       int db2_field_width (resource  $stmt, mixed  $column)

DESCRIPTION

	Returns the width of the current value of the indicated column in a result set. This is the maximum width of the column for a fixed-length
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PARAMETERS

	      o $stmt
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	      o $column
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RETURN VALUES

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