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I have the following text file:
[master]$ cat output.txt CHAR.L 96.88 -6.75 (-6.49%) MXP.L 12.62 -1.00 (-7.41%) NEW.L 7.88 -0.75 (-8.57%) AGQ.L 17.75 -0.62 (-3.40%) RMP.L 13.12 -0.38 (-2.75%) RRR.L 3.35 -0.20 (-5.71%) RRL.L 7.95 -0.15 (-1.85%) SOU.L 1.73 -0.10 (-5.22%) YELL.L 5.47 -0.04 (-0.73%) AMC.L 9.75 -0.01 (-0.05%) PLU:USOP 95.40 0.00 (+0%) BP-.L 452.10 0.95 (+0.21%) SXX.L 29.00 1.50 (+5.41%) LLOY.L 26.78 1.64 (+6.52%) DES.L 23.62 2.25 (+10.34%) GKP.L 171.62 4.50 (+2.69%) XEL.L 83.75 5.00 (+6.33%) BARC.L 190.57 9.80 (+5.43%) RKH.L 251.62 12.00 (+5.02%) UKX.L 5529.21 45.44 (+0.83%) I would like to fix the alignment of the columns. Obviously I can import into a spreadsheet or something but I would like to remain within the terminal.
EDIT: Using expand I can achieve the desired result on Ubuntu, but is this the best way?
[master]$ cat output.txt | expand -t24 CHAR.L 96.88 -6.75 (-6.49%) AMC.L 9.75 -0.01 (-0.05%) PLU:USOP 95.40 0.00 (+0%) 
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It is very simple and easy to use command line utility. This command line utility converts the input file into multiple columns and you can convert the content into the columns based on any delimiter.
the shortcut is Ctrl + Shift + S ; it allows the output to be saved as a text file, or as HTML including colors!
A nifty command called cut lets you select a list of columns or fields from one or more files. You must specify either the -c option to cut by column or -f to cut by fields. (Fields are separated by tabs unless you specify a different field separator with -d.
You can use the column command:
me@home$ column -t output.txt CHAR.L 96.88 -6.75 (-6.49%) MXP.L 12.62 -1.00 (-7.41%) NEW.L 7.88 -0.75 (-8.57%) AGQ.L 17.75 -0.62 (-3.40%) RMP.L 13.12 -0.38 (-2.75%) RRR.L 3.35 -0.20 (-5.71%) RRL.L 7.95 -0.15 (-1.85%) SOU.L 1.73 -0.10 (-5.22%) YELL.L 5.47 -0.04 (-0.73%) AMC.L 9.75 -0.01 (-0.05%) PLU:USOP 95.40 0.00 (+0%) BP-.L 452.10 0.95 (+0.21%) SXX.L 29.00 1.50 (+5.41%) LLOY.L 26.78 1.64 (+6.52%) DES.L 23.62 2.25 (+10.34%) GKP.L 171.62 4.50 (+2.69%) XEL.L 83.75 5.00 (+6.33%) BARC.L 190.57 9.80 (+5.43%) RKH.L 251.62 12.00 (+5.02%) UKX.L 5529.21 45.44 (+0.83%) If you love us? You can donate to us via Paypal or buy me a coffee so we can maintain and grow! Thank you!
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