right text align - bash

Question

I have one problem. My text should be aligned by right in specified width. I have managed to cut output to the desired size, but i have problem with putting everything on ri

Answer 1

Try:

printf "%40.40s\n" "$line"

This will make it right-aligned with width 40. If you want no truncation, drop .40 (thanks Dennis!):

printf "%40s\n" "$line"

For example:

printf "%5.5s\n" abc
printf "%5.5s\n" abcdefghij
printf "%5s\n" abc
printf "%5s\n" abcdefghij

will print:

  abc
abcde
  abc
abcdefghij