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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Need to put a space between wild cards.. Post 51657 by LordJezo on Thursday 27th of May 2004 08:34:55 AM
Old 05-27-2004
Need to put a space between wild cards..

how do you put a space in a wild card thing..

example

"LastAnalysisT.*${MONTH}.*${DAY}.*20${YEAR}"

I need to make it something like

"LastAnalysisT.*${MONTH}<I need a space here>.*${DAY}.*20${YEAR}"

So it would be something like:

LastAnalyst*May 24*2004

Where * just means I dont care what is there. I just need that space between the month and the day.

How does one put a space in there so it is recognized as a space and not a mistype?
LordJezo
 

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COLUMN(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						 COLUMN(1)

NAME
column -- columnate lists SYNOPSIS
column [-tx] [-c columns] [-s sep] [file ...] DESCRIPTION
The column utility formats its input into multiple columns. Rows are filled before columns. Input is taken from file operands, or, by default, from the standard input. Empty lines are ignored. The options are as follows: -c Output is formatted for a display columns wide. -s Specify a set of characters to be used to delimit columns for the -t option. -t Determine the number of columns the input contains and create a table. Columns are delimited with whitespace, by default, or with the characters supplied using the -s option. Useful for pretty-printing displays. -x Fill columns before filling rows. column exits 0 on success, >0 if an error occurred. ENVIRONMENT
COLUMNS The environment variable COLUMNS is used to determine the size of the screen if no other information is available. EXAMPLES
(echo "PERM LINKS OWNER GROUP SIZE MONTH DAY HH:MM/YEAR NAME"; ls -l | sed 1d) | column -t SEE ALSO
colrm(1), ls(1), paste(1), sort(1) HISTORY
The column command appeared in 4.3BSD-Reno. BSD
March 9, 2008 BSD
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