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user3022917
user3022917

Reputation: 611

How to print text in columns (delimiter = space, ignore specific column with spaces inside)?

I would like to print an output text in 4 columns:

SharedCacheMap 0xb89e9720   None   \Device\HarddiskVolume1\Windows\System32\WWanAPI.dll
ImageSectionObject 0xb89ea5f8   None   \Device\HarddiskVolume1\Program Files\McAfee\Host Intrusion Prevention\Resource\0409\McTrayHipRL.dll    
DataSectionObject 0xb89ea5f8   None   \Device\HarddiskVolume1\Program Files\McAfee\Host Intrusion Prevention\Resource\0409\McTrayHipRL.dll

I tried:

column -s " " -t

I don't know how to handle the spaces in the file pathes.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 49

Answers (2)

josifoski
josifoski

Reputation: 1726

with sed removing spaces only in filenames strings

cat yourfile.txt | sed 's/[^\]*\\/&\$\n/' | sed '2~2 s/ //g' | sed ':a; N; $! ba; s/\$\n//g'

or replace them with %20 

cat yourfile.txt | sed 's/[^\]*\\/&\$\n/' | sed '2~2 s/ /%20/g' | sed ':a; N; $! ba; s/\$\n//g'

Upvotes: 0

Cyrus
Cyrus

Reputation: 88583

Try this:

while read -r c1 c2 c3 rest; do printf "%-20s %-12s %-8s %s\n" "$c1" "$c2" "$c3" "$rest"; done < file

Output:

SharedCacheMap       0xb89e9720   None     \Device\HarddiskVolume1\Windows\System32\WWanAPI.dll
ImageSectionObject   0xb89ea5f8   None     \Device\HarddiskVolume1\Program Files\McAfee\Host Intrusion Prevention\Resource\0409\McTrayHipRL.dll
DataSectionObject    0xb89ea5f8   None     \Device\HarddiskVolume1\Program Files\McAfee\Host Intrusion Prevention\Resource\0409\McTrayHipRL.dll

Upvotes: 1

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