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Fill empty spaces in aligned columns file
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fill_empty_cols
# See:
# http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/164207/insert-missing-string-in-multiple-ordered-columns
#
# The string of numbers after 'FIELDWIDTHS' indicate the end position of each column in the file
# The column numbers should be counted *starting from 0*.
gawk -vFIELDWIDTHS="4 7 4 6 8 8 6 8 8 8 7 5 4" -vOFS= '{for (i=1;i<=NF;i++) sub(" $","--",$i);}1' file.dat > out.dat
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