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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Using printf (or other?) to create variable fixed width text Post 302836797 by RudiC on Wednesday 24th of July 2013 05:12:02 PM
Old 07-24-2013
Sorry, but that (post #2) won't yield a FIXED width file - which was part of the request - should the contents of $3 vary. You need to specify the third column output width as well, then.

EDIT: same applies to DGPickett's proposal, should $1 vary in length.

Last edited by RudiC; 07-24-2013 at 06:14 PM.. Reason: had to quote post #2
 

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NAME
amoverview - display file systems processed by Amanda over time SYNOPSIS
amoverview [[ -config ] config ] [ [-hostwidth width] ] [ [-diskwidth width] ] [ -verbose ] DESCRIPTION
Amoverview displays a chart showing hosts and file systems processed by Amanda along with the backup level performed each day. See the amanda(8) man page for more details about Amanda. OPTIONS
[-config config] Use configuration config instead of DailySet1. [-hostwidth width] Set host field column width to width characters instead of eight. [-diskwidth width] Set disk field column width to width characters instead of 20. -verbose Amoverview can take a long while on large systems. This option reports intermediate steps while it is working. EXAMPLE
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amadmin(8), amanda(8) AMOVERVIEW(8)
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