Hi

I have a shell scrpt that performs grep and the results are displayed in one long column for example:

a
b
c
d
e
f
g
h
i
j
k
l

This is presented to the users and what I would like to do is format this so it appears in multiple columns for example:

a b c d e
f g h i j
k l


Any ideas PLEASE !
Thanks

Pipe the 'grep' output to 'awk', like this:
This command does a grep for 'echo' in the file 'gettab'. The output will be captured by awk which will print every inputline ($0) as a string to stdout without a newline (\n), which otherwise had to be explicitly defined as "%s\n" in printf. The END section will eventually append a newline to conclude the output of the command.

BTW: The printf function also exists in the schell commandset but I couldn't find out how to pass the grep outputline to it as an argument.

Regards

Please see response below

Thanks for response and I am nearly there now. The only problem is that it returns:

is it possible to get them

Thanks for help on this I had to change the code a little so it now looks like this

without the space after the %s

Thanks once again for your help