Question

I know that question sounds a little odd but i will try to explain it more.

I have a file params that looks like this:

3       p       1 1.732051 0 1.9628$/x2r_a/  
4       p       1 1.732051 0 -1.9628$/x2r_a/  
5       p       -1 1.732051 0 1.9628$/x2r_a/  
6       p       -1 1.732051 0 -1.9628$/x2r_a/  

What i want to achieve is to move everything after (and with) $ to the right, ie 80th ‘place’ of a line:

3       p       1 1.732051 0 1.9628                                   $/x2r_a/  
4       p       1 1.732051 0 -1.9628                                  $/x2r_a/  
5       p       -1 1.732051 0 1.9628                                  $/x2r_a/  
6       p       -1 1.732051 0 -1.9628                                 $/x2r_a/

We don’t know the exact length of the string before the $ sign. Also the space between must be filled with spaces and nothing more.

As always i need to do it in bash 2.05 probably with sed, awk or sth like that.

UPDATE
I wasn’t specific about how file look like so here’s more:

c ------------------
c Something stupid
c ------------------
c there is a number: 9$/ar_numb/
c a line that looks
1       px      0.9814$/r_a/
2       px      -0.9814$/r_a/
3       p       1 1.732051 0 1.9628$/x2r_a/
4       p       1 1.732051 0 -1.9628$/x2r_a/
5       p       -1 1.732051 0 1.9628$/x2r_a/
6       p       -1 1.732051 0 -1.9628$/x2r_a/
c
c dirty line
7       cz      0.9347$/x05d_a/
c very dirty
41      p       0$/A_Nel/!jl
        1$/B_Nel/!jl
        0$/C_Nel/!jl
        0$/D_Nel/!jl
        $bad element
42      p       1.723051$/A_NEel/!jl
        1$/B_NEel/!jl
        0$/C_NEel/!jl
        0$/D_NEel/!jl
        $kokode nanika kaite kudasai

I will not post changed version becouse it would be too long. I want $[string] parts to be moved to the right, but those lines without $ thing will remain as they are.

Answer 1

Based on kojiro’s answer to include the new requirements

awk -F'$' '/\$/{printf("%-79s$%s\n", $1, $2);next}1' ./params

Proof of Concept

$ awk -F'$' '/\$/{printf("%-79s$%s\n", $1, $2);next}1' ./params
c ------------------
c Something stupid
c ------------------
c there is a number: 9                                                         $/ar_numb/
c a line that looks
1       px      0.9814                                                         $/r_a/
2       px      -0.9814                                                        $/r_a/
3       p       1 1.732051 0 1.9628                                            $/x2r_a/
4       p       1 1.732051 0 -1.9628                                           $/x2r_a/
5       p       -1 1.732051 0 1.9628                                           $/x2r_a/
6       p       -1 1.732051 0 -1.9628                                          $/x2r_a/
c
c dirty line
7       cz      0.9347                                                         $/x05d_a/
c very dirty
41      p       0                                                              $/A_Nel/!jl
        1                                                                      $/B_Nel/!jl
        0                                                                      $/C_Nel/!jl
        0                                                                      $/D_Nel/!jl
                                                                               $bad element
42      p       1.723051                                                       $/A_NEel/!jl
        1                                                                      $/B_NEel/!jl
        0                                                                      $/C_NEel/!jl
        0                                                                      $/D_NEel/!jl
                                                                               $kokode nanika kaite kudasai