On 2024-05-21 22:56, Roman Perepelitsa wrote:
> One little thing, can I have the first and last columns, but with a
>> tab between, or some other columnizer?
> Tab instead of space:
>
>    awk '{print $1 "\t" $NF}'
>
> Left-justified first column:
>
>    awk '{printf "%-16s\t%s\n", $1, $NF}'
>
> Columnized output:
>
>    awk '{print $1, $NF}' | column -t
>
> `column -t` is easy to use and produces nicely aligned output. The
> downside is that it buffers all input, so it's not always applicable.
>
> Roman.
Gotta learn awk!  Nuts, made the wrong choice going with sed.