creating a table in Linux?

how do you create an expense bash script in order from largest or biggest to smallest and reverse? I have like 12 different characters. How to have different columns line up? Please advise.

i would look into awk and maybe sort ?

Can you show us what you have and how you want it to be?

Here's an old LQ thread that might help: https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...sh-4175585504/

Probably the best-looking table would be obtained by generating HTML. Open the file in any web browser to produce a very nicely rendered page for printing.

Also, if it were me, I wouldn't bother with actual "bash scripting." You don't have to. Insert a #!shebang line as the first line of the file, specifying the name of the scripting-language processor of your choice. Bash will silently "fork" that command-processor – Perl, PHP, Ruby, etc. – to run your script, and no one will ever know. Although "pure bash scripting" has been used to do very remarkable things, to me it's an exercise in futility.

scottietheking, I recommend you use awk. It is funny, I am taking a scripting course in college and this is kind of similar to one of my homework assignments. I am not home now but if I have time later I can post what I did for my assignment. Let me know.
Thank you

scottietheking, is your question about scripting logic, or about getting output into a table layout in the terminal?