How to set tabs size?

[sjsp]

Hi,

I am writing a script to run 'df -k' on remote machines and redirecting the output to a file.

This works fine but the problem I have it that as the tab length is 8 characters, anything larger than 8 chars is shifted right. Is there anything I can do to rectify this?

An extract/example from the scripts is as follows:

remsh $host df -lk | awk '{print $2 "\t\t" $3 "\t\t" $4 "\t\t" $5 "\t\t" $6}'> disk-usage-from-$host

I.E the columns dispalyed are:

kbytes used avail capacity Mounted

If the result outputs that the kbytes is greater that 8 chars the rest of the line shifts to the right and the columns do not appear in alignment with the smaller filesystems.

I have has a look at the tabs command etc

 

[grega]

An alternative solution would be to use printf instead of print in your awk command. This would allow you to format the output as you like.

Greg.