Korn Shell & Printing Certain Output

metallica1973 · 01-10-2008, 06:18 AM

I have this output using Korn Shell. The output that I like is fine.

PHP Code:



                        Ping    Telnet  Logable? 
NAM                     Status  (Nmap)  (Expect) 
================================================= 
192.119.12.2            up      open     No   
192.119.12.3            up      open     No   
192.119.12.4            up      open     No   
192.119.12.5            up      open     No   
192.119.12.6            down    No       No   
192.119.12.7            up      open     No   
192.119.12.8            up      open     No

but if I wanted to add an additional column and have it print out a version like:

PHP Code:



                        Ping    Telnet  Logable? 
NAM            Version  Status  (Nmap)  (Expect) 
================================================= 
192.119.12.2   2.1      up      open     No   
192.119.12.3   2.1      up      open     No   
192.119.12.4   3.5      up      open     No   
192.119.12.5   3.5      up      open     No   
192.119.12.6   3.5      down    No       No   
192.119.12.7   3.6      up      open     No   
192.119.12.8   3.6      up      open     No

So instead of having to do this several times:

PHP Code:



printf "                         Ping    Telnet  Logable?\n"  
printf "NAM            Version   Status  (Nmap)  (Expect)\n" 
printf "=================================================\n" 
printf "                2.1                              \n" 
printf "                2.1                              \n" 
printf "                3.5                              \n" 
printf "                3.5                              \n" 
printf "                3.5                              \n" 
printf "                3.6                              \n" 
printf "                3.6                              \n"

How can I print this more efficiently? Can I simply make a constant and then say print this constant several times. Bare with me for I am a novice at programming.

bigearsbilly · 01-10-2008, 08:14 AM

maybe like this (using TABs to format)

Code:

#!/bin/ksh

name=thingy
version=99.9


cat <<EOF
                          Ping    Telnet  Logable?
 NAM    Version   Status  (Nmap)  (Expect)
 =================================================
        2.1
        2.1
        3.5
$name   $version
EOF

Code:

$ ./1.sh
                          Ping    Telnet  Logable? 
 NAM    Version   Status  (Nmap)  (Expect)
 =================================================
        2.1                              
        2.1                              
        3.5                              
thingy  99.9