Output columns needs to be aligned

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi All

I'm running a shell script and the output is something like:

Col1           Col2       Col3
aaaa      aaaaaaa   aaaaa
bbbbb       bbbbb      bbbbbb
ccc        cccccc    ccccccc

But I require the output to printed as given below:

Col1           Col2          Col3
aaaa          aaaaaaa     aaaa
bbbbb         bbbbb       bbbbbb
ccc           cccccc      ccccccc

Thanks in advance,
Kamal

2

Post your script, and we'll see how we can assist.

Regards

3

I'm displaying the output using the below echo statement

echo " $line $TAB $TAB $line2 $TAB $TAB $(head -1 /tmp/alias_names.list) $TAB $TAB $TAB $(awk -F" " '{print $2}' /tmp/port.list) "

4

Not enough information, post the contents of the variables $line, $line2, the output of

head -1 /tmp/alias_names.list

the output of

awk -F" " '{print $2}' /tmp/port.list

and the desired output.

5

Those two statements are just print a single variable