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Old 12-13-2005
Column Alignment
I copied a word file to my Unix directory, How do I line up my columns to the file I copied over?
# 2  
Old 12-14-2005
MySQL
can try with awk.
Read with possible delimeters set tab/space then finally write to file as per need.

rishi
# 3  
Old 12-15-2005
Hi,

You could pipe the file through the col command. col -b has worked for me before.

Cheers
Helen
# 4  
Old 12-07-2006
hi,

when i pipe the col -b, it looks like nothing different. could u provide a simple example?

file content:
FIELD COUNT
------ -------
ABC 123
ABC_1 133
ABC_4 30

cat {filename} |grep ABC |col -b

output:
ABC 123
ABC_1 133
ABC_4 30
 
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