Help Justify with printf in ksh script

[ryanc2]

I've got a KSH script that uses awk to print $5 and $6 to the screen. $5 can be 1 or 2 digit number, and $6 can be up to 7 digits.

I'd like to justify spacing between the two columns to appear below:

1 1234456
2 12359609
20 5309286

Currently, I have hardcoded spaces with echo " ", but if $5 is 2 digits, it obviously adds an extra space before $6.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance...

 

[ericbrunson]

try something like:

printf "%2s%10s" $1 $2

 

[PHV]

You may consider either:
print $1"\t"$2
Or:
printf "%2d %7d\n",$1,$2

Hope This Helps, PH.
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[ryanc2]

Thanks!