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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Adding variable number of space in between two string Post 302927123 by RavinderSingh13 on Monday 1st of December 2014 05:38:21 AM
Old 12-01-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by diehard
Well the field is separated by , so I can have pq abc , pq. In that case your script won't work.
By the way thanks for your help.
Hello,

Following is working even space is there in first field, let's say we have following input file.

Input_file:
Code:
cat check_space
a                                   ,bb
abc                    ,bcb
pqr ab              ,bfg

Output will be as follows.
Code:
awk -F, 'FNR==NR{l=length($1) > l?length($1):l;next} {$1=sprintf("%-"l"s",$1)} 1' OFS=, Input_file Input_file
 
a                                     ,bb
abc                                   ,bcb
pqr ab                                ,bfg

Thanks,
R. Singh
Last edited by RavinderSingh13; 12-01-2014 at 06:50 AM.. Reason: Corrected solution
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