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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Printing a specific number of spaces Post 302982781 by SkySmart on Tuesday 4th of October 2016 01:03:27 AM
Old 10-04-2016
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Originally Posted by Don Cragun
I must be missing the point. You show us a very inefficient script that uses two shells and an awk to print the number of characters in the value of a shell variable. I do not understand how this relates to turning each individual letter (which presumably does not include underscores and periods [and digits, but there aren't any digits in the given sample input]) into an unspecified number of <space> characters.

Please give us a clear specification of what you are trying to do, and tell us what operating system and shell you're using.
how do i print a specific number of spaces, which is equal to the number of characters in a name.

say a user specifies the name: check_disks.sh

there are 14 characters in the name "check_disks.sh".

i want to now print 14 spaces.
 

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Name
       DwtMainSetAreas - Sets up or adds the menu bar, command window, work window, and scroll bar widgets to the main window widget of the appli-
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       horizontal_scroll_bar
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