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Subject: Re: A vi question
Summary: Making a range of lines in a file to be of fixed length
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Date: 20 Aug 90 14:15:07 GMT
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Hi,

Is there a quick way to make a range of lines in a file to be of same length ?
In other words I want the lines in question to contain the same number of
characters (padded with blanks if necessary at the end).
(awk, sed or shell script solutions are fine too).

Satish