In ksh I use :Quote:> I have a need to print out mulitple spaces to fill out fields
> in fixed length records.
e.g.
$ a="this"
$ b="is"
$ c="a_test"
$ printf "%-10s %-10s %-10s\n" $a $b $c
this is a_test
$ man printf
by Reinhard Skarba » Tue, 27 Jun 2000 04:00:00
In ksh I use :Quote:> I have a need to print out mulitple spaces to fill out fields
> in fixed length records.
e.g.
$ a="this"
$ b="is"
$ c="a_test"
$ printf "%-10s %-10s %-10s\n" $a $b $c
this is a_test
$ man printf
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