Format output in columns

Question

I was wondering how to format the following output:

-0.3116274D-04
-0.2389361D-04
-0.1192458D-04
0.3306203D-04
0.2534987D-04
0.1265136D-04
-0.2167920D-04
-0.         


        

Answer 1

Try this:

printf "%14s  %14s  %14s  %14s  %14s\n" $(cat data.txt)