Shell Programming and Scripting

I use cshell and for this task it writes out values to specific column positions and this is what I ended up with:

Code:

setenv ST 06 #Position 1
setenv CTY 001 #Position 3
setenv FIREID CS000000001.1 #Position 6
setenv PTID 1 #Position 21
setenv STACKID 1 #Position 36
setenv SCC 2801500000 #Position 102
setenv LAT 33.19200012 #Position 231
setenv LON -93.7975012 #Position 240
printf "%-2s%-3s%-15s%-15s%-66s%-129s%-9.9s%-9.9s%s\n" $ST $CTY $FIREID $PTID $STACKID $SCC $LAT $LON

Although now I wonder if it is possible to align output to the right of the field rather than the left. For instance if ST is 6 (rather than 06), the first two spaces of output are "6 "rather than " 6". Is there a way to make it align right instead?

Thank you everyone for your very informative posts.

Just leave out the "-" sign and a field will right align...

Hah! I wondered what that negative sign was doing... Thank you very much!!

The printf thinks all strings are numbers, so everything is right jusified unless '-'.