printf:
#!/bin/bash
foo=$(printf "%-8s" bar)
echo "a${foo}b"
Spake Eben King on Saturday, February 14, 2004 at 09:06PM -0500:
> 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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