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From: rchattam@isis.cs.du.edu (King Chattam)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: adjusting string var to fixed length
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Date: 3 Jun 91 18:14:47 GMT
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Netters,
  I have a shell var (length 0 to 10), which I want always to be output
to a file as fixed length 10. I tried sed, awk etc to adjust the string
length to 10, but did not work.

  Could someone please tell me how blanks can be appended to string vars
to make it fixed length?
rchattam@nyx.cs.du.edu
Thanks