SPRINTF in shell scripting?

Question

I have an auto-generated file each day that gets called by a shell script. But, the problem I\'m facing is that the auto-generated file has a form of:

FIL         


        

Answer 1

Try:

sprintf() { local stdin; read -d '' -u 0 stdin; printf "$@" "$stdin"; }

Example:

$ echo bar | sprintf "foo %s"
foo bar