Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Using AWK to fixed-format print in VIM

24,42!awk '{printf("\%30s\%20f\%15g\%15g\%15g\%15g\%15g\%15g\%15g\%5i\n" , $1,$2,$3,$4,$5,$6,$7,$8,$9,$10)}'


It's important that the %'s must be escaped, otherwise they print the current filename.

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