Re: script to center text

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From: Martin Weitzel
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 17:38

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In article <1992Jul28.151623.12798@news.eng.convex.com> tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes:
[...]
>On the other hand, this solution
>
>    perl -pe 'print " " x int((80 - length())/2)' 
>
>not rely on echo behavior, isn't a process pig, and doesn't
>run afoul of my /bin/test command.  It also runs a tad faster:

perl: not found

Sorry, couldn't resist :-)



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From: martin@mwtech.UUCP (Martin Weitzel)
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Subject: Re: script to center text
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