I want to print a list to screen in a readable way. I use a loop to go through each element and make a new list which is formatted with commas and newlines. The problem is that in the first line of the output, I want a title. E.g., I want to print something like this:
List: red, green, blue, black, cars, busses, ... The problem is to create the indentation in the second and following lines. I want the indentation to be of a given length. Therefore the problem is reduced to creating an empty line of a given length. That is, I want a function, create_empty_line_of_length, that outputs the given amount of spaces.
length=5 echo "start:$(create_empty_line_of_length $length) hello" The output should in this case be:
start: hello Does anyone know how to do this?
