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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Adding variable number of space in between two string Post 302927103 by diehard on Monday 1st of December 2014 04:18:13 AM
Old 12-01-2014
Adding variable number of space in between two string
Hi,

I am looking for the way to add variable number of spaces between two string. e.g input line is
a ,bb
abc ,bcb
pqr ,bfg

My output should be something like this
Code:
a                                   ,bb
abc                    ,bcb
pqr                 ,bfg

This text are basically inside a file. So I tried like this

Code:
while read line
do
        IFS=','
        set $line
        printf '%s' "$1" >> out.txt
        ## Here I have to include space to arrange line properly
        printf '%s,' "$pading" >> out.txt 
        printf '%s\n' "$2" >> out.txt
 
done < $fname

Thanks

---------- Post updated at 04:18 AM ---------- Previous update was at 04:13 AM ----------

Well I am not able to show the require output properly . The only thing which I want is second column should be start at same point.Like
bg
bc

Not like
bg
"some spaces" bc
 

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NAME

       bnmotd.txt, bnnews.txt bnissue.txt - messages for the Unix Battle.net daemon

DESCRIPTION

       The file bnmotd.txt contains text displayed by bnetd(1), when users first log into the server.

       The file bnnews.txt contains text displayed when the user uses the /news chat command.

       The  files  consist  of raw text with printf-style formatting escapes.  Each line of a file can contain a type formatter from the following
       list:

	      %B     Use the broadcast attribute (???).

	      %C     Execute the line as if the user entered it as a command.

	      %E     Use the error attribute (red).

	      %I     Use the info attribute (yellow).  This is the same was %W.

	      %M     Normal chat message (white).  This will appear as if the user said it.

	      %T     Emote chat message (???).	This will appear as if the user said it.

	      %W     Use the warning attribute (yellow).  This is the same was %I.

       Within a line, any of the following format formatters may be used:

	      %%     Expand to a literal percent sign (%).

	      %a     Expand to the number of accounts on the server.

	      %c     Expand to the number of channels on the server.  This includes all permanent and current temporary channels.

	      %g     Expand to the number of games on the server.  This includes both public and private (passworded) games.

	      %h     Expand to the hostname of the server (as returned by gethostname(2)).

	      %i     Expand to this user's account ID number, formatted with a leading pound (#) sign and leading zeros.

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	      %u     Expand to the number of users logged into the server.

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