Cfrtjryk

the bash script

for i in $script_name

do

  echo -en "running the script - $it - "

  exec 3>&1 4>&2

  var=$( { time /tmp/scripts/$i 1>&3 2>&4; } 2>&1)  # Captures time only

  exec 3>&- 4>&-



  echo "$var"

done

print the following:

running the script - Verify_disk.bash -       1.42

running the script - Verify_yum_list.bash - 10.49

running the script - Verify_size.bash -   2.93

running the script - Verify_mem_size.bash -       0.71

running the script - Verify_disk_size.bash -      2.41

running the script - Verify_wdisk.bash -        1.63

running the script - Verify_cpu.bash - 0.74

since $var is the variable that print all these output
we want to alignment the output

so it will be like this

running the script - Verify_disk.bash        -   1.42

running the script - Verify_yum_list.bash    -   10.49

running the script - Verify_size.bash        -   2.93

running the script - Verify_mem_size.bash    -   0.71

running the script - Verify_disk_size.bash   -   2.41

running the script - Verify_wdisk.bash       -   1.63

running the script - Verify_cpu.bash         -   0.74

what are the additional changes that should be with $var in order to alignment the last fields

I don't think that you can do the formatting proper inside the script as the earlier iterations of the loop have no way of knowing the width of the following variables; how about a two-step process?

I also took the liberty (personal preference) to right-align the output of the time values.

Having saved your example input to file (can't generate that dynamically) my suggestion looks like this:

cat yael | awk -F'-' '{printf "%s - %-30s - % 6.2fn",$1, $2, $3}' 

running the script  -  Verify_disk.bash              -   1.42

running the script  -  Verify_yum_list.bash          -  10.49

running the script  -  Verify_size.bash              -   2.93

running the script  -  Verify_mem_size.bash          -   0.71

running the script  -  Verify_disk_size.bash         -   2.41

running the script  -  Verify_wdisk.bash             -   1.63

running the script  -  Verify_cpu.bash               -   0.74

So if you were to pipe the output of your script through my awk ...

Do a pre-loop to calculate the longest filename then use that as a spacing parameter:

longest=0

for file in *.bash

do

  [ "${#file}" -gt "$longest" ] && longest=${#file}

done



# ... for your execution loop

printf "running the script - %${longest}st- "

printf "%sn" "$var"

I assume that all of your scripts are covered by the wildcard *.bash; adjust that as needed. The initial loops calculates the needed width; the initial printf uses that variable to format the width of the script field for every iteration of the for loop.