Special print in bash

Question

I would like to print data format like this in bash shell. Can you suggest how to print the numbers out?

Number=     1
Number=    10
Number=   100
Number=  1000

Does this answer your question? [right align/pad numbers in bash](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/994461/right-align-pad-numbers-in-bash) (see the second answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/994953/1773798) — Renaud Pacalet, Jun 21 '22 at 10:43

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 21 '22 at 09:30

3

Use printf; it allows format strings, including padding:

for n in 1 10 100 1000; do
    printf "Number=%6s\n" $n
done

Number=     1
Number=    10
Number=   100
Number=  1000

answered Jun 21 '22 at 09:30

Roger Lipscombe

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