creating a table in Linux

scottietheking · 02-09-2018, 08:37 PM

How do you create a table with basically 7 columns separated equally and about 7 rows within the command line in Linux? Basically a table 7 by 7.

frankbell · 02-09-2018, 08:46 PM

I am hardly an expert in this, but a web search for "command line linux columns" turned up this: https://www.lifewire.com/file-conten...-linux-4018107

scasey · 02-10-2018, 01:34 AM

"table" implies database to me. What database(s) do you have installed?

syg00 · 02-10-2018, 01:44 AM

... or maybe HTML .... ?

ondoho · 02-10-2018, 04:03 AM

Code:

man column
column -tN 7 filename

jlinkels · 02-10-2018, 06:12 AM

Asking a question in just one line without providing the necessary information is better suited for Google than for LQ

jlinkels

Shadow_7 · 02-10-2018, 09:31 AM

Do you just want to pad things so it's evenly spaced?

TEMP="paddingpaddingpadding"$VAR1
echo -n $TEMP | tail -n 10
TEMP="paddingpaddingpadding"$VAR2
echo -n $TEMP | tail -n 10
TEMP="paddingpaddingpadding"$VAR3
echo -n $TEMP | tail -n 10
TEMP="paddingpaddingpadding"$VAR4
echo -n $TEMP | tail -n 10
TEMP="paddingpaddingpadding"$VAR5
echo -n $TEMP | tail -n 10
TEMP="paddingpaddingpadding"$VAR6
echo -n $TEMP | tail -n 10
TEMP="paddingpaddingpadding"$VAR7
echo $TEMP | tail -n 10

Where 10 is the number of chars and could be anything that makes sense $(( $(( $COLUMNS / 7 )) - 1 )).

fatmac · 02-10-2018, 09:38 AM

...or maybe even take a look at sc a text/command line spreadsheet......depending on what your end aim is.
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10699

Edit: If you were meaning a database table, then take a look at sqlite.
https://www.sqlite.org/

John VV · 02-11-2018, 06:47 PM

OR do you want a 7 x 7 CSV ascii text "table" ?

libreoffice calc ( spreadsheet) will do that very easily

but this dose read like a paraphrased homework question

BW-userx · 02-11-2018, 08:33 PM

could be LibreOffice Cal, or some other type of spread sheet.

edit:
belay that I just read the post above me, after posting... lol

Code:

$ for ((j=1;j<8;j++)) do echo " $j|_|1|_|2|_|3|_|5|_|6|_|7|" ; done
 1|_|1|_|2|_|3|_|5|_|6|_|7|
 2|_|1|_|2|_|3|_|5|_|6|_|7|
 3|_|1|_|2|_|3|_|5|_|6|_|7|
 4|_|1|_|2|_|3|_|5|_|6|_|7|
 5|_|1|_|2|_|3|_|5|_|6|_|7|
 6|_|1|_|2|_|3|_|5|_|6|_|7|
 7|_|1|_|2|_|3|_|5|_|6|_|7|

7 long by 7 down