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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Trying to space columns in a report Post 57951 by turbulence on Wednesday 10th of November 2004 03:00:37 PM
Old 11-10-2004
Trying to space columns in a report
I have a program that calculates shipping cost for an item and prints the information to a file. I cannot seem to get the lines to print with equal spacing in columns.

I need data like this to be aligned into columns:

Optical Mouse 5 A $25
Compaq Presario 3 C $100
PS2 2 D $18

I am trying to use awk to do it but having no luck.

Code:
echo "$Name;$Quantity;$Class;$Total" | awk -F";" '{printf "%s %10s %10s %10s\n", $1, $2, $3, $4}' >> ShipInfo

 

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colrm

COLRM(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						  COLRM(1)

NAME

     colrm -- remove columns from a file

SYNOPSIS

     colrm [start [stop]]

DESCRIPTION

     The colrm utility removes selected columns from the lines of a file.  A column is defined as a single character in a line.  Input is read
     from the standard input.  Output is written to the standard output.

     If only the start column is specified, columns numbered less than the start column will be written.  If both start and stop columns are spec-
     ified, columns numbered less than the start column or greater than the stop column will be written.  Column numbering starts with one, not
     zero.

     Tab characters increment the column count to the next multiple of eight.  Backspace characters decrement the column count by one.

ENVIRONMENT

     The LANG, LC_ALL and LC_CTYPE environment variables affect the execution of colrm as described in environ(7).

EXIT STATUS

     The colrm utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

SEE ALSO

     awk(1), column(1), cut(1), paste(1)

HISTORY

     The colrm command appeared in 3.0BSD.

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