I usually use nedit to show this file in a shell script. I don't know what tool could do what I want, I tried calling a spreadsheet for instance but didn't work.
I'd be very grateful if someone could suggest me a solution for this, thanks in advance.
I don't understand. What is it that you want to do?
You want to process/massage the this data through the shell script somehow? You want to display it on the screen?
Elaborate please!
Thanks for your answer. I just want to display it arranged by cells, like in the excel. So far I displayed it with nedit, ie. in the way I showed here.
I don't think there's an Excel-like app in *NIX that comes out of the box...
You can convert your file into the HTML doc and display it in the browser....
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Hi.
The perl code align is the best tool for column alignment I have seen. Here I used the first 10 columns of your input data as a demonstration. The first part shows the context on our systems, the last part is probably more of interest:
Code:
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# @(#) s1 Demonstrate align for column presentation, display.
# source for perl code "align": http://freshmeat.net/projects/align
# Section 1, setup, pre-solution.
# Infrastructure details, environment, commands for forum posts.
# Uncomment export command to test script as external user.
# export PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin"
set +o nounset
pe() { for i;do printf "%s" "$i";done; printf "\n"; }
pl() { pe;pe "-----" ;pe "$*"; }
C=$HOME/bin/context && [ -f $C ] && . $C align
set -o nounset
pe
FILE=${1-data1}
# Create short version of data file.
cut -f1-10 -d" " data0 > $FILE
# Section 2, display input file.
# Display sample of data file, with head & tail as a last resort.
pe " || start [ first:middle:last ]"
specimen $FILE \
|| { pe "(head/tail)"; head -n 5 $FILE; pe " ||"; tail -n 5 $FILE; }
pe " || end"
# Section 3, solution.
pl " Results:"
align $FILE
exit 0
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