I am parsing the csv file using bash script, my output will be in tabular form with number of rows and coloums, so when i redirect my output to text file alignment mismatch and look so messy.
Can anyone guide me how to redirect my output to html format or suggest me with anyother alternative way.
Thanks in advance
If you don't really need the output in HTML, but you're having trouble with column alignment using tabs, you can get good column alignment with printf.
By the way, it would help if your question included some sample input, the script that you're using to parse and output it and some sample output.
Here is a simple demonstration of printf:
$ cat file
example text,123,word,23.12
more text,1004,long sequence of words,1.1
text,1,a,1000.42
$ cat script
#!/bin/bash
headformat='%-*s%-*s%*s%*s\n'
format='%-*s%-*s%*d%*.*f\n'
modwidth=16; descwidth=24; qtywidth=6; pricewidth=10
printf "$headformat" "$modwidth" Model "$descwidth" Desc. "$qtywidth" Qty "$pricewidth" Price
while IFS=, read model quantity description price
do
printf "$format" "$modwidth" "$model" "$descwidth" "$description" "$qtywidth" "$quantity" "$pricewidth" 2 "$price"
done < file
$ ./script
Model Desc. Qty Price
example text word 123 23.12
more text long sequence of words 1004 1.10
text a 1 1000.42
Write it out in TSV, then have a XSLT stylesheet convert it from TSV to XHTML. You can use $'\t' in bash to produce a tab character.
A simple solution wold use column(1):
column -t -s, <( echo "head1,head2,head3,head4"; cat csv.dat )
with a result like this one:
head1 head2 head3 head4
aaaa 33333 bbb 123
aaa 333333 bbbx 123
aa 3333333 bbbxx 123
a 33333333 bbbxxx 123
