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align fields in columns

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Hi Listers, I have tens of files and each files has got a number of records. There is only three fields in each record. I would like to align fields in columns. Can any one show me how to do it using script. Thanx Yacob

Name: WilliamRobertson
Date: October 1, 2003 at 16:11:27 Pacific

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Maybe something like: awk '{printf "%-20s%-20s%-20s\n", $1, $2, $3}' yourfile.dat "%...s" means a character string. 20 means a length of 20 characters. awk defaults to right-alignment (presumably for columns of figures) so you need -20 for left-alignment.

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