printf

[Snyder, Alexander]

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 at 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 at 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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>> Thanks,
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>> Wozniak" ::--
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