Formatting the output of a script

Dear readers,

I have a script that counts the number of files in particular directories in my home location and displays the output. Now I have 13 directories in my home location. I am getting the output as :

Avishek_dir 13
Kunal_dir 17
Shantanu_dir 18
Arup_dir 12
Pranabesh_dir 19
.
.
.
etc

like this
I want the output like
Avishek_dir--------13
Kunal_dir ---------17
Shantanu_dir------18
Arup_dir-----------12
Pranabesh_dir-----19

Can you tell me how to do it :).

Thanks in advance .

Regards
Avishek

whats the diff...???both look same

I want the directory name and the output to be distributed linear fashion, like in two coloumns .

Pipe the output to:

awk '{printf("%-25s%s\n",$1,$2)}'

use printf to print o/p
if you know the length of the longest dir name then you can easily format it if not calculate it and format
for ex:

printf("%-20s%-3s",diname,file_count)

the length of the longest directory is 17 ... where to use that length ...

then as Franklin suggested pass the o/p of your script to

script_name|awk '{printf("%-25s%s\n",$1,$2)}'

awsome !!!! its working ..

thanks a lot to you and Franklin