STDOUT in one line

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi all,

I got a file which contains this.

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa test
aaaaaaaaaaaaaa test
aaaaaaaaaaa test
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa test
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa test
aaaaaaaaa test
aaaaa test

and I want all test output in one row, ideally 3 spaces after the longest word.
Thanks

2

somethng like this:

 
cat file_name | tr "\n" "  "
3

More like

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa test
aaaaaaaaaaaaaa                                test
aaaaaaaaaaa                                     test
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa                           test
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa                    test
aaaaaaaaa                                         test
aaaaa                                                test
4

you mean "test" in one column?

awk '{printf("%80s %s\n", $1, $2) } ' inputfilename

This assumes your data sample is correct: there are only two "words" on a line

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5

Perfect thanks