06-05-2013
Thank you for a quick response vidyadhar85
Details are as under
Quote:
header funtion
{
printf "\n%-25s %-5s" "Row1" "|"
printf "\n%-25s %-5s" "Row2" "|"
printf "\n%-25s %-5s" "Row3" "|"
}
And in the main program, the data is collected from file + command line arguments
outputs printed are after calling
Quote:
header function
printf "%-35s\n" "$1"
printf "%-35s\n" "$2"
printf "%-35s\n" "$7"
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PRINTF(1) User Commands PRINTF(1)
NAME
printf - format and print data
SYNOPSIS
printf FORMAT [ARGUMENT]...
printf OPTION
DESCRIPTION
Print ARGUMENT(s) according to FORMAT, or execute according to OPTION:
--help display this help and exit
--version
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FORMAT controls the output as in C printf. Interpreted sequences are:
" double quote
\ backslash
a alert (BEL)
backspace
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e escape
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new line
carriage return
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NNN byte with octal value NNN (1 to 3 digits)
xHH byte with hexadecimal value HH (1 to 2 digits)
uHHHH Unicode (ISO/IEC 10646) character with hex value HHHH (4 digits)
UHHHHHHHH
Unicode character with hex value HHHHHHHH (8 digits)
%% a single %
%b ARGUMENT as a string with '' escapes interpreted, except that octal escapes are of the form or NNN
%q ARGUMENT is printed in a format that can be reused as shell input, escaping non-printable characters with the proposed POSIX $''
syntax.
and all C format specifications ending with one of diouxXfeEgGcs, with ARGUMENTs converted to proper type first. Variable widths are han-
dled.
NOTE: your shell may have its own version of printf, which usually supersedes the version described here. Please refer to your shell's
documentation for details about the options it supports.
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SEE ALSO
printf(3)
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