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In-reply-to: <1mm7og67rpkdy.dlg@thorstenkampe.de> 
From: Oliver Kiddle <okiddle@yahoo.co.uk>
References: <1mm7og67rpkdy.dlg@thorstenkampe.de>
To: Thorsten Kampe <thorsten@thorstenkampe.de>
Subject: Re: Justifying text output 
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 12:28:21 +0100
Message-ID: <30391.1079090901@trentino.logica.co.uk>

Thorsten Kampe wrote:
> I wrote a little script[1] that compiles the main zsh config files. Is
> there any way to make the "[ ok ]"/"[ failed ]" messages on the right
> justified?

I'll add a third way, also compatible with ksh: using printf.

printf "${ltred}* ${white}%-60s [ ${ltred}failed${white} ]\n" "ERROR:    $file - file not readable"

They key bit is the '%-60s' in the format string which tells it to
print the string right justified with a width of 60 spaces.

Oliver