how do i print $2 amount of " " before i stat something.
so if $2 was 3 then it would print like
" d.txt"
so here there is 3 spaces before the d.txt
In what language or shell?
unix shell script
That's nice... WHAT UNIX, and WHAT shell? They're not all the same!
One way to print a fixed number of spaces (but not other chars):
printf "%20s" A B C ; echo
The "echo" is there since printf doesn't add a newline by itself.