Does anybody know how to pad a variable with spaces in bash? In {pd}ksh,
.--
| #! /bin/ksh
| typeset -L8 foo=bar
| echo "a${foo}b"
'--
would print
abar b
How would I do a similar thing in bash (without calling ksh -c 'typeset
-L8 foo=bar; echo "a${foo}b"')?
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would keep all wine out of the country lest men should be drunk.
-- Oliver Cromwell
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