Re: right justify each line?

Your input.x = output.x and also what do you mean each line in input.x has the same length? look at the line 99999.

You need to post sensibly first.


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Sent: Saturday, November 14, 2015 9:25 AM
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Subject: right justify each line?



Hi,

Assume each line in input.x has the same length.

$ cat input.x
99
99
9
9 9
99999

I want to right justify each line, so output.x would be:

$ cat output.x
99
99
9
9 9
99999

What is simplest way to convert input.x to output.x?

I tried the following, but does not work, because of greedy evaluation,
\2 always encompasses the entire line.

$ sed "s/^\(.*\)\( *\)$/\2\1/" input.x

Thanks,
Daniel




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