How to adjust spacing

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Is there a way to adjust spacing of a line using k shell?

e.g I have a file below

$ cat file1
AAA BBB CCC
A B C
AAAA BB CC

I want each word to be adjusted with spaces to have 10 character length like below:

AAA       BBB       CCC
A         B         C
AAAA      BB        CC

Any help will be appreciated.

Steve

2 
awk ' { for(i=1;i<=NF;++i) printf("%-10s",$i); printf("\n"); } ' file
3

anbu's awk solution is better, as it will work for any number of fields, but if you want to use shell builtins only...

$ while read line; do
>   set -- ${line}
>   printf "%-10s%-10s%-10s\n" $1 $2 $3
> done < spacetest.txt
AAA       BBB       CCC       
A         B         C         
AAAA      BB        CC

Cheers
ZB

4

Awesome!
Thanks guys!

Steve

5 
while read;do printf "%-10s" $REPLY; printf "\n"; done<inputfile

or (for fixed numer of fields):

printf "%-10s%-10s%-10s\n" $(<inputfile)