title: How can I align the columns of tables in Bash?
body: <p>I want to format text as a table. I tried echoing with a <code>'\t'</code> separator, but it was misaligned.</p>
  <p>Desired output:</p>
  <pre><code>a very long string..........     112232432      anotherfield
  a smaller string                 123124343      anotherfield
  </code></pre>