#157 Formatting Output In Awk

#157 Formatting output in awk

Without formatting, the command look like this

`1`	`awk` `' BEGIN {FS=":"} { print $1,$3,$7 } '` `/etc/passwd`

The same command with formatting

`1`	`awk` `' BEGIN {FS=":"} { printf "%10s %4d %17s\n",$1,$3,$7 } '` `/etc/passwd`

With the header information added to the BEGIN block:

`1`	`awk` `' BEGIN {FS=":" ; print "%10s %4s %17s\n","Name","UID","Shell"} { printf "%10s %4d %17s\n",$1,$3,$7 } '` `/etc/passwd`

#157 Formatting output in awk