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Padding trailing whitespaces in a string with another charachtercharacter

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Writing Padding trailing whitespaces in a string over 20 characters maximum and complete white spaces with dotsanother charachter

I'd like to output hello worldhello world over 20 characters.

printf "%-20s :\n\n" 'hello world!!'

# Actual output
hello world!!        :

# Wanted output
hello world!!========:

However, I don't want to complete with spaces but with "=" instead. How do I do that?

I'd like to output hello world over 20 characters

printf "%-20s :\n\n" 'hello world!!'

# Actual output
hello world!!        :

# Wanted output
hello world!!========:

However, I don't want to complete with spaces but with "=" instead. How do I do that?

I'd like to output hello world over 20 characters.

printf "%-20s :\n\n" 'hello world!!'

# Actual output
hello world!!        :

# Wanted output
hello world!!========:

However, I don't want to complete with spaces but with "=" instead. How do I do that?

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edited Oct 18, 2017 at 9:52

I'd like to output hello world over 20 characters

printf "%-20s :\n\n" 'hello world!!' 

# Actual output
hello world!!        :

# Wanted output
hello world!!========:

However, I don't want to complete with spaces but with "=" instead. How do I do that?

I'd like to output hello world over 20 characters

printf "%-20s :\n\n" 'hello world!!'

However, I don't want to complete with spaces but with "=" instead. How do I do that?

I'd like to output hello world over 20 characters

printf "%-20s :\n\n" 'hello world!!' 

# Actual output
hello world!!        :

# Wanted output
hello world!!========:

However, I don't want to complete with spaces but with "=" instead. How do I do that?

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asked Oct 18, 2017 at 9:47

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