cutting spaces where there are none... 1

[mwesticle]

I have a file that contains a 10 byte sequence number, followed by a 1 to 3 byte segment id. My file looks like this (without the single quotes):

'1234567890A'
'0987654321BB'
'1111111111CCC'

So, as you see, some records are 11 bytes in width, some are 12, and some are 13.

I want to use "sed", or something like it, to turn every record in this file into a fixed width of 13 bytes, inserting spaces where the data doesn't actually take up the entire 13 bytes. So the data returned will look like this (without the single quotes):

'1234567890A '
'0987654321BB '
'1111111111CCC'

Can anyone help me out here? Thanks once again...

 

[PHV]

The awk way:

awk '{printf &quot;%-13.13s\n&quot;,$0}'</path/to/file >output

Hope This Help, PH.
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