Hey, Thanks to everyone who replied. Infact many people replied with almost identical answers. awk '{printf "%8d %8d %8d %8d %8d\n", $1, $2, $3, $4, $5}' <My_file_name> The above one liner worked for me. I hope this summary reaches the group as i had summarised earlier but it didn't reach the group. If you get it twice pls excuse me. Regards Himanshu "Kovacs, Gyula" wrote: Hi, cat | awk '{printf "%8d %8d %8d %8d %8d\n", $1, $2, $3, $4, $5}' Regards, --Gyula -----Original Message----- From: himanshukhona [mailto:himanshukhona@indiatimes.com] Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2003 6:21 AM To: sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org Subject: Help for formatting using scripting Hey all, I have a file with say 5 columns with integers in all of them. I need to write a script which will modify the file such that each of the number is written with default 8 spaces allocated to it. For e.g. even if the number is 962, it will be left alligned & use up 8 spaces Its a small task. I tried many combinations of awk & printf. Pls help. TIA Himanshu Get Your Private, Free E-mail from Indiatimes at http://email.indiatimes.com Buy the best in Movies at http://www.videos.indiatimes.com Bid for Air Tickets @ Re.1 on Air Sahara Flights. Just log on to http://airsahara.indiatimes.com and Bid Now ! _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers Get Your Private, Free E-mail from Indiatimes at http://email.indiatimes.com Buy the best in Movies at http://www.videos.indiatimes.com Bid for Air Tickets @ Re.1 on Air Sahara Flights. Just log on to http://airsahara.indiatimes.com and Bid Now ! _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Tue Feb 11 10:47:01 2003
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