Re: Counter && print issue

For the first part of your question, I think you want printf, which allows specifying column widths. Something like this (not tested):

printf "%s\n%25s%s%s%4s%s",color('white'),$elt,
         color('reset'),color('green'),'[Ok]',color('reset');
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For the second part of your question, to count the number of times system returned 1, just declare a variable before the loop starts, and inside that elsif put $your_variable++. As others have mentioned, $? is probably closer to what you want; you have to muck about with the bits returned by system to get the program's exit status; see the documentation for details

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Re^2: Counter && print issue by giany (Acolyte) on Oct 08, 2005 at 12:22 UTC
Thx for your input..i`ve tried what you said and now it gets like this : `WAA[Ok] Longname.......[Ok] Onotherlognname...[Ok] Smalln[Ok]` [download] And I wanted to look like : `WAA [Ok] Longname....... [Ok] Onotherlognname... [Ok] Smalln [Ok]` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: Counter && print issue by sgifford (Prior) on Oct 08, 2005 at 16:09 UTC
Use a negative field width to get it left-aligned (yes, it's non-intuitive, but `printf` has been that way for a long time): `printf "-26s %4s\n","WAA","[Ok]";` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]