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List:       aix-l
Subject:    Re: search and add...
From:       Ray Schafer <schafer () TKG ! COM>
Date:       1999-02-25 3:47:49
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jistdc1@MAIL.JBHUNT.COM wrote:

> I need to add about 10-15 spaces AFTER an '='.  Well, what I really
> want to do is aling everything up so it's so many spaces from the
> right, like:
>
> Agent.Daily.AccessDenials = 0
> Agent.Daily.ScheduledRuns = 0
> Agent.Daily.TriggeredRuns = 21

[...]

You could use awk.
awk '{printf ("%-39.39s%s ", $1, $2)    # formats the first two fields
the way you want
   for (i=3;i<=NF;i++) {
        printf (" %s", $i)     # prints all the rest of the fields with
a preceeding space
    }
printf ("\n");   # ends with a newline
}' input_filename

The processing is done for each line.


Or you could use the Korn shell printf:

cat input_file | while read field equals rest
do
printf "%-39.39s %s %s\n" $field $equals "$rest"
done

I guess the shell looks easier...

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Ray Schafer                   | schafer@tkg.com
The Kernel Group              | Distributed Systems Management
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