Center text in console with simple pipe like
center(){ l="$(cat -)"; s=$(echo -e "$l"| wc -L); echo "$l" | while read l;do j=$(((s-${#l})/2));echo "$(while ((--j>0)); do printf " ";done;)$l";done;};
$ls --color=none / | center
bin
boot
dbg
dead.letter
dev
etc
home
lib
lib64
logton.log
lost+found
media
mnt
my.cnf
opt
proc
root
sbin
session_mm_apache2handler0.sem
srv
svn
svn-commit.tmp~
sys
tmp
usr
var
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center(){ C=$(tput cols);IFS="";while read L; do S=$((($C-${#L})/2+${#L}));printf "%${S}s\n" $L;done }Building on the work of glaudiston and eightmillion, of course :-) PS Pascal's Triangle looks fantastic!tput colsReturn the console width... I did not knew yet... very nice. tnx