I'm trying to find a tutorial that explains "PRINTF" as it relates to usage in BASH, more specifically how to create tables based on output ... aaand let's toss a bit of AWK in there, y'know just to complicate things more, LOL.  I've tried reading the man page about PRINTF [ http://linux.die.net/man/1/printf ] ... I've seen various tutorials, about BASH, ,TABLES, and AWK, but I'm just not finding anything that can really tie it together ... preferably with examples and maybe some screenshots?

Has anyone found any really good tutorials?