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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting sed add space X times Post 302932780 by holyearth on Saturday 24th of January 2015 01:31:23 PM
Old 01-24-2015
sed add space X times
Pattern:
Mary walks at the park every day with her children


Code:
sed 's/$/ /'

will make it add 1 space at the end (trailing)

I want to add X ($VARIABLE) number of spaces (which comes from RANDOM)

i.e.
VARIABLE='14'
then it will do:
Code:
sed 's/$/              /'

= 14 spaces added at the end.....

Some suggestions how to do that?

I tried to do it adding unicode xA0 but it didn't work

Thanks!
Last edited by holyearth; 01-24-2015 at 02:36 PM..
 

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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

       bup margin [options...]

DESCRIPTION

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