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You could use printf and then replace spaces with...
You could use printf and then replace spaces with asterisks.
awk '{ p=sprintf("%3s%7s", $1, $2); gsub(/ /, "*", p); print p }' a.txt
If your awk doesn't have the gsub function, see if you can...
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