I'm not working on anything specifically now, but the recent thread about "xargs" vs. "-exec" got me thinking about it, I have seen and used column, but (at the time) I was trying to create output in a table like
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
| header1 | header2 | header3 |
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
| value  |  value |  value |
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

so on and so forth.  I've seen that done, its fancy and I know that kind of magic is done with printf (among other things) ... have you produced output like that?

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On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 8:11 PM, sean <sean.a.ritzler@gmail.com> wrote:

What sort of tables/output? Have you played with column (piping to column -t)?

On Jul 31, 2015 8:08 PM, "Snyder, Alexander" <alex@misteralexander.com> wrote:
Hello all!

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?

I look forward to any suggestions from the community!

-Alex


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