Re: Trailing spaces to lines less than x characters

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How about

perl -ne'chomp; printf "%-76s\n", $_' infile > outfile
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Updated to correct silliness. Question: why do you need to append spaces to the end? That seems very impracticle ... spaces are usually prepended to such strings.

jeffa

L-LL-L--L-LL-L--L-LL-L--
-R--R-RR-R--R-RR-R--R-RR
B--B--B--B--B--B--B--B--
H---H---H---H---H---H---
(the triplet paradiddle with high-hat)

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Re^2: Trailing spaces to lines less than x characters by davido (Cardinal) on Jun 05, 2015 at 18:46 UTC
That should be... `perl -lne 'printf "%-76s", $_' infile > outfile` [download] ...otherwise the spaces will get appended after the newline on each existing line, and then another newline will be appended after that. Also in-place editing could look like this: `perl -lni.bak -e 'printf "%-76s", $_' infile` [download] Dave	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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