--On Saturday, April 12, 2003 06:07:01 PM -0700 Jim Angstadt <jimajima9@yahoo.com> wrote: > perl has a nice way of padding variables to line > up columns: > > print "\t$a", ' 'x($block - length($a)), "\tb: > $b \n"; Yikes! Check out printf, or write & format. > Is there something similar in bash? I dunno...pipe them into awk so you can use printf? :-) -- Ken Herron