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Table format with ShellScript

From within the shellscript I'd like first to create a file with a table containing two headers( path-name, type) and then feed those columns with the result from the following code:

Code:

file $1/*|tee list_file

The final result should look something like that but with more space between the headers and columns :

-----------------------------------------------
path-name type
-----------------------------------------------
/home/file ASCII
/home/file2 Texte file
/home/file3.htm HTML document text
-----------------------------------------------

I tried the following code but that doesn't do the trick:

Code:

file $1/*|tee list_file | awk 'BEGIN {print "Path-Name\t\t\tType\n--------------------------------------------"} {print $1"\t"$2} \

END {print "-----------------------------"}' list_file

Help! Thanks

Look into awk's ability to handle fixed-width fields.

Yves.

Hello Yves,

The truth is that I 've been unable to get the table with the ouput content. I tried that but it still don't work:

Code:

 

#!/bin/bash



file $1/*|tee file_list 



awk 'BEGIN { print "Path-Name Type"

              print "--------- -----"}

          { print $1, "      ", $2 }' file_list

:confused: