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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Add NA When String is not found Post 303024144 by dis0wned on Monday 1st of October 2018 02:37:22 PM
Old 10-01-2018
But it all sounds so good in my head when I am typing it out! lol

I am truly sorry.

I am getting information from a cisco switch or router and the format of the output is different depending on the type of device connected. In some cases a match will be made and the field will be returned in other cases it doesnt exist and I would like NA to be printed in its place. This will keep all fields in the output file uniform which is key for the excel import that needs to occur. What is happening is some of the devices wont return a match for the " /VLAN:/" field. Well when this happens, it shifts everything in the output one column to the left.

Does that help to clarify? Im truly not trying to be cryptic but apparently not intelligent enough to properly communicate my problem. Thanks for your help, I do appreciate it
 

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NEATEN(1)						      General Commands Manual							 NEATEN(1)

NAME

       neaten - neaten up output columns

SYNOPSIS

       neaten [ format ]

DESCRIPTION

       Neaten  reads  from  its standard input and neatens up columns separated by white space using the specified format.  The format is a string
       consisting of a positive integer followed by an alignment character and another integer.  The alignment	character  is  usually	a  decimal
       point ('.'), but it can be any non-digit.

       The  alignment  character  is used as the central point of each column.	The total column field width will be the number to the left of the
       alignment character plus one for the alignment character itself plus the number to the right of the alignment character.

       If a field does not contain the alignment character, it will be printed to the left of where the alignment character would  have  appeared.
       If  a  field  is  too long to print within the specified format, the entire field will be printed and that row will not be aligned with the
       rest.

       The default format is "8.8".

EXAMPLE

       To examine a file with columns of numbers:

	 neaten 10.8 < input | more

BUGS

       Columns wider than the total width of the format specification will be printed without any separating white space.

       The program does not do anything special with tabs on the input.

AUTHOR

       Greg Ward

SEE ALSO

       cnt(1), rcalc(1), rlam(1), total(1)

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							     11/15/93								 NEATEN(1)
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