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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting awk to print fixed length columns to right side Post 302674871 by 244an on Friday 20th of July 2012 03:05:06 PM
Old 07-20-2012
Read my edited post above, there I have that as a last suggestion (only "%s" as last format)
AND I also changed the format strings in that post - you were to quick Smilie
And perhaps edit in you post were you quoted me, so not others will be confused...
 

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