On 26-Nov-2004/17:37 -0600, Mike Vanecek <rh_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>I have looked through my books and googled ... Tried serveral things without
>success ...
>
>I would like to run the output of a bash command that produces 1 field per
>line output through sort and then output in 3 columns. I have looked at
>printf, fmt, column, and so on.
>
>For example,
>
>rpm -qa | sort 2>&1 | column -c 2
>
>rpm -qa | sort | column -c 2
>
>Or say I have a file with a list of sorted names, for example,
>[admin@www admin]$ rpm -qa | sort -o rpm.txt
>
>Then I want to output the file with
>
>column -c 2 rpm.txt
>
#!/usr/bin/perl
#
# Format STDIN into three tab-delimited columns
#
$colnum = 1;
while ($line = <STDIN>) {
chomp $line;
if ($colnum < 3) {
print "$line "; # The whitespace is a tab character.
} else {
print "$line\n";
}
}
You could get fancy using perl's formatting features, but this quick$
dirty should work for lines that are all of similar length, or for input
in an application that easily parses tab-delimited data.
Tony
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