Shell Programming and Scripting

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| VAR1                              | VAR2 |
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|This is RAJ working as DB2 | This is RAM working as a |
|UDB DBA for VISA            | ORACLE DEVELOPER for TARGET |
|Corporation, Need your     | Corporation, Need your help in |
|help in Shell scripting         |Shell scripting, Thanks in Advance |
|                                     | for your reply. |
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#!/usr/bin/env bash

# @(#) s1	Demonstrate fold, paste and expand to columnize text.

# Utility functions: print-as-echo, print-line-with-visual-space, debug.
pe() { for i;do printf "%s" "$i";done; printf "\n"; }
pl() { pe;pe "-----" ;pe "$*"; }
db() { ( printf " db, ";for i;do printf "%s" "$i";done; printf "\n" ) >&2 ; }
db() { : ; }
C=$HOME/bin/context && [ -f $C ] && . $C fold paste expand

# VAR1=This is RAJ working as a DB2 UDB DBA for VISA Corporation,
# Need your help in Shell scripting
# VAR2= This is RAM working as a ORACLE DEVELOPER for TARGET
# Corporation, Need your help in Shwll scripting, Thanks in Advance
# for your reply.

v1="This is RAJ working as a DB2 UDB DBA for VISA Corporation, Need your help in Shell scripting"

v2="This is RAM working as a ORACLE DEVELOPER for TARGET Corporation, Need your help in Shwll scripting, Thanks in Advance for your reply."

pl " Results:"
paste <( echo "$v1" | fold -s -30 ) <( echo "$v2" | fold -s -30 ) |
expand -35

exit 0

% ./s1

Environment: LC_ALL = C, LANG = C
(Versions displayed with local utility "version")
OS, ker|rel, machine: Linux, 2.6.26-2-amd64, x86_64
Distribution        : Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.7 (lenny) 
GNU bash 3.2.39
fold (GNU coreutils) 6.10
paste (GNU coreutils) 6.10
expand (GNU coreutils) 6.10

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 Results:
This is RAJ working as a DB2       This is RAM working as a 
UDB DBA for VISA Corporation,      ORACLE DEVELOPER for TARGET 
Need your help in Shell            Corporation, Need your help 
scripting                          in Shwll scripting, Thanks in 
                                   Advance for your reply.