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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Putting white Space at the end of the string Post 302864383 by Don Cragun on Wednesday 16th of October 2013 01:12:36 PM
Old 10-16-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by CarloM
Assuming you have printf:
Code:
printf "%-15s" $value

Although this works fine for the given example, it would be safer to use:
Code:
printf "%-15s" "$value"

in case $value sometimes expands to a string containing whitespace characters.
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