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Asked: 2026-06-11T11:18:10+00:00

I do a long pipe, that ends with …| awk ‘{print $5\t\t $3\t$4}’ in

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I do a long pipe, that ends with ...| awk '{print $5"\t\t" $3"\t"$4}' in the Linux terminal. The columns are padded with tabs. The first column entries have different number of characters, so the second column results are not perfectly vertical. How to make the table look perfect?

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  1. Editorial Team

    try to pipe the result to column -t:

    ...| awk '{print $5"\t\t" $3"\t"$4}'|column -t

    hope it helps

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