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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers How to use printf to output a shell variable path? Post 302982713 by rbatte1 on Monday 3rd of October 2016 04:44:20 AM
Old 10-03-2016
I suppose it depends on what steezuschrist96 actually wanted. Perhaps the output was to include tabs rather than the literal \t characters to line up the output.

To do that, would it be be more of a:-
Code:
printf "\$COLUMN1_HEADING\t\$COLUMN2_HEADING\n%s\t%s\n" "$COLUMN1_HEADING" "$COLUMN2_HEADING"

Output is:-
Code:
$COLUMN1_HEADING	$COLUMN2_HEADING
John	123456789

The columns don't line up because the literal $COLUMN1_HEADING is so long.

Convert to this to line it up:-
Code:
printf "\$COLUMN1_HEADING\t\$COLUMN2_HEADING\n%s\t\t\t%s\n" "$COLUMN1_HEADING" "$COLUMN2_HEADING"

... giving you:-
Code:
$COLUMN1_HEADING	$COLUMN2_HEADING
John			123456789


I hope that this help, but apologies if I've got the wrong end of the stick.



Robin
 

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