Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,

I am trying to send output from a shell scrip to a txt file in a colum format. I have all I can and I dont seem to understand why the results from one one particular file keeps going to the next line. How can I force all to be in one line

Please see code and output below

The is prints the header

Code:

 
 
echo "File Name                \column1\t\tcolumn2\t\tcolumn3\t\tcolumn4\t\tcolumn5\n">>outfile.txt

while this appends the results to the file

Code:

echo "$infile\t$Column1\t\t$Column2\t\t$Column3\t\t$Column4\t\t$Column5\n" >>outfile.txt

thee following is the result

Code:

FileName  Column1   Column2      Column3      Column4     Column_5
 
file1        +
 
file2                        +
 
File3                                        +
 
file4        +
+
 
file5        +                                               +
 
file6                        +                               +

notice that file4 has a value in the next line. This value should have been under column3 for file 4. Not sure what to do.

Thank you

---------- Post updated at 12:08 PM ---------- Previous update was at 11:40 AM ----------

I solved my problem. I only had the tabs in quotes and not the columns.

Thanks.

All is working well now.