A number of strong suggestions have been made here, but as a note, if you have a series of operations that involve accumulation of strings ending in newlines, you should probably use here-docs. In this case, your series of printfs:

printf  <<EOF, "   FILENAME   ", "  AUTHOR  ","  VERSION  ";
                                     Branch : $branch                 
+                                                         
|=====================================================================
+===================================================================|
| %-35s | %-35s | %-35s 
|=====================================================================
+===================================================================|
EOF
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Of course, given what you have there, print probably makes more sense than printf