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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers grep problem Post 6451 by LivinFree on Wednesday 5th of September 2001 06:19:37 AM
Old 09-05-2001

Yeah, give it a shot, let us know if you have any problems with it! I'm pretty sure what you're describing will work - I have written similar scripts in the past.
 

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NAME

       shtool-table - GNU shtool pretty-print a field-separated list

SYNOPSIS

       shtool table [-F|--field-sep sep] [-w|--width width] [-c|--columns cols] [-s|--strip strip] strsepstr...

DESCRIPTION

       This pretty-prints a list of strings as a table.

OPTIONS

       The following command line options are available.

       -F, --field-sep sep
	   Separate columns using sep. Default is ":".

       -w, --width width
	   Width of each column. Default is 15 characters.

       -c, --columns cols
	   Number of columns. Default is 3.

       -s, --strip strip
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HISTORY

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SEE ALSO

       shtool(1), tr(1), fmt(1), sh(1), awk(1), sed(1).

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