Script: Centering

>         Does anybody have a script that centers text or pictures or whatever?
> I know this is only a really simple tr command, but I can't figure it out
> right now. :) Thanks...

Try this:

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#!/usr/bin/awk -f
# centre all input text on an 80-column line
{
  if ( length < 78 ) {
    le = ( 80-length ) / 2 ;
    for ( i=1 ; i<=le ; i++ ) {
      printf(" ")
    };
  } print $0
}
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Seems to work ok for me :-)

If you haven't got an 80-column display, or don't want to centre
between columns 1 and 80, then this should be able to be modified
so that it can take paramaters to set the centering margins.

Hope this is useful.

Cheers
Tony
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