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Re: Justifying text output

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From: Oliver Kiddle <okiddle@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Thorsten Kampe <thorsten@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Justifying text output
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 12:28:21 +0100
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Thorsten Kampe wrote:
> I wrote a little script[1] that compiles the main zsh config files. Is
> there any way to make the "[ ok ]"/"[ failed ]" messages on the right
> justified?

I'll add a third way, also compatible with ksh: using printf.

printf "${ltred}* ${white}%-60s [ ${ltred}failed${white} ]\n" "ERROR:    $file - file not readable"

They key bit is the '%-60s' in the format string which tells it to
print the string right justified with a width of 60 spaces.

Oliver

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