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Re: Shifting a block of text
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Chris F.A. Johnson |
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Re: Shifting a block of text |
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Wed, 8 Dec 2021 03:45:38 -0500 (EST) |
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Alpine 2.22 (DEB 394 2020-01-19) |
On Wed, 8 Dec 2021, fatiparty--- via wrote:
Dec 8, 2021, 07:40 by fxmbsw7@gmail.com:
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shifted-block "Phrase 1" "Phrase 2" "Phrase 3"
Print phrases without any leading spaces (uses nc=0)
shifted-block 8 "Phrase 1" "Phrase 2" "Phrase 3" ...
Print phrases on separate lines with 8 leading spaces (uses nc=8)
shifted-block()
{
case $1 in
*[!0-9]*) ;;
*) padding=$1
shift ;;
esac
printf -v pad "%${padding}.${padding}s" ' '
fmt=$pad%s'\n'
printf "$fmt" "$@"
}
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Chris F.A. Johnson
Re: Shifting a block of text, Kerin Millar, 2021/12/08