Login or Register to Ask a Question and Join Our Community

Sponsored Content
Full Discussion: Spacing between words
Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Spacing between words Post 302480163 by ripat on Tuesday 14th of December 2010 06:49:04 AM
Old 12-14-2010
I think that Radoulov's solution above is the best one as it calculates the maximum line length before formatting it. I am not sure that I understand the advantage of manipulating the ARGV variable compared to this:
Code:
awk -F= 'NR==FNR{len=length($1);len>ml && ml=len;next}{printf "%-*s=%s\n", ml, $1, $2}' infile infile

 

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

spacing question

hi , i have follwing strings in a text file hello i am cool hey i am cool arrey i am cool in all the above 3 i wanna retrieve cool.......for this i used split(/ /) but it takes into consideration only one space.......is there any regular expression to do the trcik? ... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: vivekshankar
7 Replies

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

character spacing issue

I have a script that has a counter in it, the output from the script puts the values in columns, and when the values are greater than 9 it moves the rest of the row over, hence displacing the columns. Is their something I can do to make these values fit in their respective column? I tried typing an... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: wxornot
1 Replies

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

How to adjust spacing

Is there a way to adjust spacing of a line using k shell? e.g I have a file below $ cat file1 AAA BBB CCC A B C AAAA BB CC I want each word to be adjusted with spaces to have 10 character length like below: AAA BBB CCC A B C AAAA BB CC Any... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: stevefox
4 Replies

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

spacing problem

Hi guys, I have this little code: for directory in / $(echo $path | tr '/' ' ' ) do cd $directory echo "$(ls -ld | cut -c2-10 | sed 's/.\{3\}/& /' | sed 's/.\{7\}/& /' | sed 's/.\{1\}/& /g')" " $directory" done The output of this will be showing the permissions with spaces so it will... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: darkhider
2 Replies

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Help with the spacing

while IFS="" read r; do printf "XXX\t%s\n" "$r" done < test1.txt > test.txt The issue is, XXX wud be a dummy column/row added to the file..But i want this XXX column to be a separated as a TAB Delimiter it should be something like XXX 1 XXX 2 (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: saggiboy10
3 Replies

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

paste command without spacing?

I'm trying to combine text files without a space. So if i use the paste command paste file1 file2 file3 > file4 the new file created has spacing between the contents of the once individual files. Is there some trick I can do with a delimiter that removes the spaces.. like paste -d'' or... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: steveinthebox
1 Replies

7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Define spacing of columns

Hi! I need to change the spacing assigned to each number in a text file. I have an input file with 5 columns and 3 rows. Here, all numbers are separated by 1 space. I need to change this in such a way that the number in the first column has 6, the number in the second column has 5 and all other... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Alauda
2 Replies

8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

output spacing and formatting

here is my code and output, i just want to display it clearly to the users. how can I fix the spacing or put some headers like NAME, DEV id, Size, Meta code: symdg show $INS-${SNAP} | egrep "D-" | awk '{print $1,$3,$NF,$5}' output: D-arch 23C2 983040 (M) D-db 0704 245760 (M) D-undo 07DB... (12 Replies)
Discussion started by: prodigy06
12 Replies

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Uniform Spacing in the message

Hello, I am running a script which sends an output as an email; I am having issues with the spacing being not uniform in the message. Snippet of the code and email message below: if ] then echo "$Hostname\tMISSING\tHMCBackup" >> $BackupMsg else if ] then echo... (12 Replies)
Discussion started by: hasn318
12 Replies

10. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

Grep spacing issue

Hi, I'm trying to match html strings using grep commend and I'm not able to eliminate the extra spaces. This is working when there is no space. Can anyone help me what am I missing here? I'm able to match KayDee where there is no space. grep commands tried: grep -P -o -e... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: Shenbaga.d
1 Replies

LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS

adjmsg

adjmsg(9F)						   Kernel Functions for Drivers 						adjmsg(9F)

NAME

       adjmsg - trim bytes from a message

SYNOPSIS

       #include <sys/stream.h>

       int adjmsg(mblk_t *mp, ssize_t len);

INTERFACE LEVEL

       Architecture independent level 1 (DDI/DKI).

PARAMETERS

       mp     Pointer to the message to be trimmed.

       len    The number of bytes to be removed.

DESCRIPTION

       The  adjmsg()  function	removes  bytes	from a message. |len| (the absolute value of len) specifies the number of bytes to be removed. The
       adjmsg() function only trims bytes across message blocks of the same type.

       The adjmsg() function finds the maximal leading sequence of message blocks of the same type as that of mp and starts removing bytes  either
       from  the  head	of that sequence or from the tail of that sequence. If len is greater than 0, adjmsg() removes bytes from the start of the
       first message block in that sequence. If len is less than 0, it removes bytes from the end of the last message block in that sequence.

       The adjmsg() function fails if |len| is greater than the number of bytes in the maximal leading sequence it finds.

       The adjmsg() function may remove any except the first zero-length message block created during adjusting. It  may  also	remove	any  zero-
       length message blocks that occur within the scope of |len|.

RETURN VALUES

       The adjmsg() function returns:

       1    Successful completion.

       0    An error occurred.

CONTEXT

       The adjmsg() function can be called from user, interrupt, or kernel context.

SEE ALSO

       STREAMS Programming Guide

SunOS 5.11							    16 Jan 2006 							adjmsg(9F)
All times are GMT -4. The time now is 01:27 AM.
Unix & Linux Forums Content Copyright 1993-2022. All Rights Reserved.
Privacy Policy