Andris wrote:
On 8/5/07, Jacek Masiulaniec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 4 Aug 2007, at 19:31, Andris wrote:
Hi, I'm writing a set of small utilities as scripts, and I got a
segmentation fault working on one of them.
The script is suppoused to align text with spaces. Say you have
this file:
Foo1\tFoo2
Baaaaaaaaaaaar\tBar2
Baz
Where \t are horizontal tabs. My script would replace the tabs with an
adequate number of spaces to align foo2 and bar2.
Writing replacement for "column -t", huh?
Jacek
Didn't know about it :P But I'll do it anyway, cause I want it to be a
standard and portable script.
I believe column(1), including the -t option, is very standard. It has
been around for over 20 years and is included in all the BSDs. I believe
it is also in many of the major Linux distros too.
Don't reinvent the wheel arbitrarily.
See also: sed(1), awk(1), expand(1), colrm(1), paste(1), cut(1),
printf(1), and shell's set command
That should take care of most of your text processing needs.
-pachl
