Re: Shifting a block of text

[Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev]

i cannot support this nonsense
imagine u have to print 1m lines, this function will take ages
bye

On Wed, Dec 8, 2021, 08:44 <fatiparty@tutanota.com> wrote:

> Dec 8, 2021, 07:40 by fxmbsw7@gmail.com:
>
> i dunno but its very nonsense
> if more args just 2 u use
>
>
> Yes, currently only two args are used, one for the amount of leading
> spaces, the second
> argument  for a text string.  I want to make it use all arguments that
> follow as you say.
>
> maybe describe the project u do more in detail and we shall see better
>
> On Wed, Dec 8, 2021, 08:38 fatiparty--- via <help-bash@gnu.org> wrote:
>
>
> Trying to adapt the following function to use all arguments rather than
> just the first one.
> The code should introduce nc spaces ahead of the start of each argument
> passed.
> Each shifted argument must be on new line. The first argument ins
> numeric, defining
> the amount of shift.
>
> shifted-block ()
> {
> if (( $# == 1 )); then
> nc=0 ; arg="$1"
> elif (( $# >= 2 )); then
> nc="$1" ; arg="$2"
> else
> nc=0 ; arg="$1"
> fi
>
> nw=$(( nc + ${#arg} ))
> printf "%${nw}s\n" "$arg"
> }
>
>
>