How Print a Tab 1

[YerMom]

I'm working in tcsh and I have a script that prints information to the console. I would like to have nicely formatted output, with some information separated by tabs, but I don't know how to do this.

How do I output a tab from a script?

Thanks.

 

[p5wizard]

man printf


HTH,

p5wizard

 

[PHV]

I don't know tcsh, but in standard shells:

echo "x[!]\t[/!]y"

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[YerMom]

echo "x\ty" did not work, but printf does:

printf "Some text\tSome more text"

Thanks!

 

[stefanwagner]

echo -e "man\techo"

-e schould do the trick.

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[p5wizard]

For more possibilities in outputting aligned text, explore man page for printf some more

[tt]
printf "%-30.30s %9s %9s\n" FileSystem SIZE FREE
printf "%-30.30s %7.2fGB %7.2fGB\n" /1st/file/system 12.5 1.23
printf "%-30.30s %7.2fGB %7.2fGB\n" /2nd/file/system 4 0.66
printf "%-30.30s %7.2fGB %7.2fGB\n" /3rd/file/system 5.8 1.01
[/tt]

Mostly this needs some trial and error, but it is much easier than tabs as you're not limited to fixed tab stops...


HTH,

p5wizard

 

[YerMom]

Thanks a ton Stefan and p5.

I seem to remember all the printf formatting from my C days. (Nice memories.)

Later...