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- From: 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org
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 - Cc: BasicLinux List <baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org>
 - Subject: Re: [BL] DOS & Shell Scripting Guide 41
 - Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2007 15:54:02 +1300
 
Lee Forrest wrote:
>
> Do you know how to turn that mess into, say, 4 neat columns,
> with printf? I'd love to be able to do that.
clear
num=1
set "/" "/bin" "/dev" "/etc" "/home" "/lib" "/proc" "/root" "/sbin" "/usr"
"/var" ".." `/bin/ls -F`
for file in "$@" ; do
printf "%-20s" "[${num}] $file"
[ `dc $num 4 mod` = 0 ] && echo
num=`expr $num + 1`
done
Cheers,
Steven
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            Re: [BL] long filenames 34,
            3aoo-cvfd, 02/01/2007
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            Re: [BL] long filenames 34,
            James Miller, 02/01/2007
- [BL] Shell Collection (was long filenames) 3D, Lee Forrest, 02/01/2007
 
 
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            Re: [BL] long filenames 34,
            James Miller, 02/01/2007
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            Greg Mayman, 02/01/2007
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            Re: [BL] long filenames 34,
            3aoo-cvfd, 02/01/2007
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            [BL] DOS & Shell Scripting Guide (was: long file names) 3C,
            Lee Forrest, 02/01/2007
- Re: [BL] DOS & Shell Scripting Guide (was: long file names) 3C, Karolis Lyvens, 02/02/2007
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            Re: [BL] DOS & Shell Scripting Guide (was: long file names) 3C,
            Ron Clarke, 02/02/2007
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            Re: [BL] DOS & Shell Scripting Guide 40,
            Lee Forrest, 02/02/2007
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- Re: [BL] DOS & Shell Scripting Guide 41, Lee Forrest, 02/02/2007
 - Re: [BL] DOS & Shell Scripting Guide 41, 3aoo-cvfd, 02/02/2007
 - [BL] Simple File Manager (was: DOS & Shell Scripting Guide), Lee Forrest, 02/02/2007
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 - Re: [BL] Simple File Manager (was: DOS & Shell Scripting Guide), 3aoo-cvfd, 02/03/2007
 - Re: [BL] Simple File Manager 44, Lee Forrest, 02/03/2007
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 - Re: [BL] Simple File Manager 45, Lee Forrest, 02/03/2007
 - Re: [BL] Simple File Manager, 3aoo-cvfd, 02/03/2007
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            Re: [BL] DOS & Shell Scripting Guide 40,
            Lee Forrest, 02/02/2007
 
 
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            [BL] DOS & Shell Scripting Guide (was: long file names) 3C,
            Lee Forrest, 02/01/2007
 
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            Re: [BL] long filenames 34,
            3aoo-cvfd, 02/01/2007
 
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            Re: [BL] long filenames 34,
            3aoo-cvfd, 02/01/2007
 
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