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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