Problem:
entry_name="joke:hello:yellow:blue:default"
print("%d %-12s\t%-10s\t%-5s\n", $i, $entry_name....);
I just want to print the output like this
index entry value ....
1 joke:hello:y 0 123 567
ellow:blue:d
efault
My step:
get the length of the entry_name
i=0
entry_length=$(echo "$entry_name" | awk '{print length($entry_name)}')
((j=entry_length/12))
while((i<j))
do
tmp=$(echo "$entry_name" | awk '{print substring($entry_name, i*12, 12)}')
printf("%-12s\n", tmp);
((i=i+1))
done