title: KornShell- Creating a fixed width text file
body: <p>I need to create a simple fixed width text file in KornShell (ksh).  My <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1730183/korn-shell-printf-padding-a-string">current attempt</a> using printf to pad the string isn't working out very well.  What's the shortest, cleanest way to create a fixed width string in ksh?</p>