07-08-2015
Both solutions worked, but your solution RudiC gave me the "just a few seconds" type of result I was looking for.
Thanks to you as well Aia as you taught me a different way to deal with "while read" loops that is cleaner than my old way.
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SHTOOL-TABLE.TMP(1) GNU Portable Shell Tool SHTOOL-TABLE.TMP(1)
NAME
shtool-table - GNU shtool pretty-print a field-separated list
SYNOPSIS
shtool table [-F|--field-sep sep] [-w|--width width] [-c|--columns cols] [-s|--strip strip] strsepstr...
DESCRIPTION
This pretty-prints a list of strings as a table.
OPTIONS
The following command line options are available.
-F, --field-sep sep
Separate columns using sep. Default is ":".
-w, --width width
Width of each column. Default is 15 characters.
-c, --columns cols
Number of columns. Default is 3.
-s, --strip strip
Strip off any characters past strip. Default is 79.
EXAMPLE
# shell script
shtool table -F , -w 5 -c 4 "1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12"
HISTORY
The GNU shtool table command was originally written by Ralf S. Engelschall <rse@engelschall.com> in 1999 for GNU shtool.
SEE ALSO
shtool(1), tr(1), fmt(1), sh(1), awk(1), sed(1).
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