[colug-432] Nice Plain Text Columns and Avoiding NIH

[Jim Wildman]

awk is your tool.  See printf output formatting in man awk.

On Sun, 7 Aug 2011, jep200404 at columbus.rr.com wrote:

> I have a plain text file with variable width fields delimited by tabs.
> What filter program(s) are good at making the columns line up in
> plain text output? It would also be nice to be able limit the
> maximum size of some fields.
>
> I am playing with the output of http://colug.net/~jep/gas,
> which uses http://colug.net/~jep/parsegaspriceshtml.awk.
>
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