On Wed Nov 17 10, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Nov 17), Alexander Best said: > > hi there, > > > > i've looked at a lot of utilities in the bsd src tree and most of them > > seem to be doing something like this: > > > > Device 1M-blocks Used Avail Capacity > > /dev/label/swapfs 10239 0 10239 0% > > /dev/label/swap 8191 0 8191 0% > > Total 18431 0 18431 0% > > > > as you can see the header simply gets written with a number of tabs in > > between the keywords, but then the actual output aligns differently. > > > > i'd like to learn of ways formatting the header so that it aligns > > properly, whether the device name is 10 chars long or 1000. is there an > > example for this somewhere in the src tree? > > /bin/ls does this for the user, group, and size columns. Note that this > only works if you batch up your output (or take two passes over your input > data). I seem to remember /usr/bin/find doing this dynamically by expanding > columns as it saw values that were larger than the previous max, but > apparently not (I just tested it).
thanks. so looking at the /bin/ls source is probably the first i should do. cheers. alex > > -- > Dan Nelson > dnel...@allantgroup.com -- a13x _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
