Summary: Help with awk script

Hey all,


SImilar answers like one below.


I was making some syntax error. 


Using printf with awk on the file & redirectingi t to an ew file solved the problem.


Thanks you all who reponded to very accurate answers.


Regards


Himanshu

"Brendan Gregg" wrote:



Hi Himanshu,

Have you tried something like,

awk '{ printf "%-8d %-8d %-8d %-8d %-8d\n",$1,$2,$3,$4,$5 }' file

This won't modify the original file, it will output to the screen. That
output can be redirected to a new file and moved over...

no worries,

Brendan


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On Sat, 8 Feb 2003, himanshukhona wrote:

|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
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