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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Printf awk: argument to adjust automatically width to the largest value Post 302605908 by itkamaraj on Friday 9th of March 2012 02:54:32 AM
Old 03-09-2012
Code:
nawk -F"\t" 'BEGIN{b=0}{for(i=1;i<=NF;i++){a=length($i);if(a>b)b=a;}}END{print b}' input.txt

the above awk will give the longest field in your file.

after that you can pass that value to awk and pass it to the printf
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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

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