printf "%4s" "foobar" prints 'foobar'. Preceding the width with a minus sign causes the output to be padded with spaces on the right
5.6 Redirecting Output of print and printf . The stripping of leading and trailing whitespace also comes into play whenever $0 is recomputed.
Invokes the awk commands (cmds) on the file or files (file(s)). $1 $2 $3. Prints using a user-supplied format. BEGIN{...} ... Matches zero or more Rs.
by padding the value with spaces on the left. E.g.. $ echo "foo"
width say 5 spaces wide
24-Apr-2019 followed by a space followed by outfile. In a command format
Printf Formats . This card describes POSIX AWK as well as the three freely ... should be padded with zeros instead of spaces.
Padded with spaces in binary format. Trailing nulls and blanks are discarded in binary scan. b. A binary string of length count. Low-
printf "%4s" "foobar" prints 'foobar'. Preceding the width with a minus sign causes the output to be padded with spaces on the right
Numeric to binary value (leading spaces). 49. FORMAT.CHAR(). Numeric to ASCII character (fixed length). 50. FORMAT.Decimal(). Numeric to string (leading