Messages in this thread |  | | From | (Scott Schwartz) | Subject | Re: Machine friendly format for /proc files | Date | 18 Feb 1997 00:08:35 -0500 |
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alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox) writes: | > (bleah part two) format, with the extra line's content not even aligned | > (bleah part three) with the major line... Matter of fact, the "bytes" | > and "carrier" entries are also misaligned (left and center, resp.) compared | > to the other headline entries (right)... | | Yep. When it works nicely I'll worry about trivialities like formatting it | neatly.
Most unix tools, awk in particular, are happiest when dealing with whitespace delimited fields, and are least happy when fixed columns are involved. May I suggest, when formatting nicely, be thoughtful to awk.
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