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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Echo display alignment/sort order Post 51019 by shackman66 on Saturday 8th of May 2004 01:23:38 PM
Old 05-08-2004
Echo display alignment/sort order

Hi,
My script prints a few varibales as each it reads each line of a text file and then prints them on screen, however iam having problem in aligning and sorting them.

what happens is this

Last First Number
Mark leo 87798798
Andrew rodgers 23789779

i want them all to be aligned accordingly. Also data should be sorted say number 2378 for andrew should come first. I am not displaying a simple text file. This outcome is as the text file is being read and each line is processed . For output this is what iam using :

echo -n "$Last $First $Number"
 

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NAME
ljlatest - prints the most recent public posts on livejournal.com. SYNOPSIS
ljlatest [--verbose] [--columns N] DESCRIPTION
The ljlatest script reads the most recent public posts made to livejournal.com, and prints them on stdout, after doing a rudimentary con- version of HTML to plain text. This script is just a wrapper around xscreensaver-text --url http://www.livejournal.com/stats/latest-rss.bml As of XScreenSaver 4.21, you can just use use above URL in the "Text URL" field on the "Advanced" tab in xscreensaver-demo(1). BUGS
This program makes it seem like morons have invaded your screen saver. The output is always ISO-8859-1, regardless of locale. SEE ALSO
http://www.livejournal.com/, xscreensaver(1), xscreensaver-text(1), fortune(1), phosphor(6x), apple2(6x), starwars(6x), fontglide(6x), dadadodo(1), webcollage(6x), driftnet(1) EtherPEG, EtherPeek COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2003, 2005 by Jamie Zawinski. Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation. No representations are made about the suitability of this software for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty. AUTHOR
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