Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 00:39:42 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Dan Larsson <dl@tyfon.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: making even columns in sh Message-ID: <20000511003941.A57999@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <NEBBJANJCNNAKCPFKHHFMENECBAA.dl@tyfon.net>; from dl@tyfon.net on Wed, May 10, 2000 at 09:43:29AM %2B0200 References: <NEBBJANJCNNAKCPFKHHFMENECBAA.dl@tyfon.net>
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On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 09:43:29AM +0200, Dan Larsson wrote:
> I've written a simple script to display usernames with their $HOME as
> root (chrooted). The $HOME variable is extracted with awk and sed.
>
> However as usernames are not all the same lenght the columns (username
> chroot/path ) don't run straight down, that is the chroot/path column
> start depends on how long the username is.
>
> Is there some way I can manipulate the rows so that the second column
> is displayed in an 'orderly' fashion using sh?
Yet another pass through awk can make things a lot more beautiful.
Try something like:
% your commands here | awk '{ printf "%-8s %s\n", $0; }'
The %-8s format string means print the argument in a string that is
8 characters wide, but left justified. More elaborate formats are
possible, but that is probably off-topic.
Ciao,
Giorgos.
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