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Old 02-26-2010
Frank, below is my requirment. I have some data which displays as follows

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above are my sample data which may contain more than 200 lines.

This requires user must scroll (vertical) to read all the data. I would like to display above data in to columnwise (may be two or three column) to accomodata all above data in to one page.

Can you pls help me?

thanks
Bala
# 9  
Old 02-26-2010
Try :

Assume you want to see a 4 column output
Code:
cat mydata | xargs -n4

# 10  
Old 02-26-2010
Hi Dennies,

Excellent, This is what i wanted. It works as i expected. I need further help to foramt the text

Currently the results appears separated by space. Is there a way i can separate the data using tabs?

It would be helpful if it can display as follows (Please find attached)
Display echo results in three column-formatinggif
# 11  
Old 02-26-2010
For displaying the full file with four columns and each column is separated by tab,you can use4 the following command.

cat mydata | xargs -n4 | sed 's/ /\t/g'
# 12  
Old 03-10-2010
Vivek,

Seems tab is not working in awk? am i missing anything?

Thanks
Bala
# 13  
Old 03-10-2010
Type <Ctrl>v and <TAB> instead of \t.

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