[ale] Bash scripting and printf

[Daniel S Cox]

At 11:11 AM 9/15/98 -0500, Bob Kruger wrote:
>$ printf "Number of lines received:  %20s $lr \n\n "
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>What I had to go to was this:
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>$ printf "Number of lines received:  "
>$ printf "%20s" "%lr"
>$ printf "\n\n"

You might try:
$ printf "Number of line received:  %20s\n\n" $lr

Danny