title: formatted printing in awk
body: <p>I have a file that i put it into a wiki</p>
  
  <pre><code>Marina Abramović 43199842
  Vito Acconci 43160016
  Bas Jan 80902233
  Eija-Liisa Ahtila 43406552
  Peggy Ahwesh 37006646
  Rita Ackermann 43208993
  Chantal Akerman 43272249
  Vikky Alexander 80703016
  Edward Allington 43387956
  Francis Alÿs 43215850
  Laurie Anderson 43170307
  Carl Andre 43308046
  Janine Antoni 43386750
  Ida Applebroog 43392256
  Nobuyoshi Araki 43387929
  Diane Arbus 43394941
  Siah Armajani 43312101
  Arman smith  80008834
  John Armleder 43437177
  Richard Artschwager 43371334
  Frank Auerbach 43386120
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>If I put Pipes between the words and names, when i put it in the wiki it looks like a nice neatly formatted table. I used awk which works great, however sometime i spend more time evening out the columns that i would putting in the pipes manually.</p>
  
  <pre><code>casper@casper-PC ~ -&gt;
   11:16 PM Wed Dec 02$ awk '{$1="|" $1 ; $2=$2 "| " ; $3=$3 "|       |        |" ; print $0}' /tmp/joinNameNumber
  |Marina Abramović|  43199842|       |        |
  |Vito Acconci|  43160016|       |        |
  |Bas Jan|  80902233|       |        |
  |Eija-Liisa Ahtila|  43406552|       |        |
  |Peggy Ahwesh|  37006646|       |        |
  |Rita Ackermann|  43208993|       |        |
  |Chantal Akerman|  43272249|       |        |
  |Vikky Alexander|  80703016|       |        |
  |Edward Allington|  43387956|       |        |
  |Francis Alÿs|  43215850|       |        |
  |Laurie Anderson|  43170307|       |        |
  |Carl Andre|  43308046|       |        |
  |Janine Antoni|  43386750|       |        |
  |Ida Applebroog|  43392256|       |        |
  |Nobuyoshi Araki|  43387929|       |        |
  |Diane Arbus|  43394941|       |        |
  |Siah Armajani|  43312101|       |        |
  |Arman Smith|  80008834|       |        |
  |John Armleder|  43437177|       |        |
  |Richard Artschwager|  43371334|       |        |
  |Frank Auerbach|  43386120|       |        |
  casper@casper-PC ~ -&gt;
   11:16 PM Wed Dec 02$
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Is there a way that i could print out the lines in fixed width ?</p>
  
  <pre><code>|Marina Abramović   |  43199842|       |        |
  |Vito Acconci       |  43160016|       |        |
  |Bas Jan            |  80902233|       |        |
  |Eija-Liisa Ahtila  |  43406552|       |        |
  |Peggy Ahwesh       |  37006646|       |        |
  |Rita Ackermann     |  43208993|       |        |
  |Chantal Akerma     |  43272249|       |        |
  |Vikky Alexander    |  80703016|       |        |
  |Edward Allington   |  43387956|       |        |
  |Francis Alÿs       |  43215850|       |        |
  |Laurie Anderson    |  43170307|       |        |
  |Carl Andre         |  43308046|       |        |
  |Janine Antoni      |  43386750|       |        |
  |Ida Applebroog     |  43392256|       |        |
  |Nobuyoshi Araki    |  43387929|       |        |
  |Diane Arbus        |  43394941|       |        |
  |Siah Armajani      |  43312101|       |        |
  |Arman Smith        |  80008834|       |        |
  |John Armleder      |  43437177|       |        |
  |Richard Artschwager|  43371334|       |        |
  |Frank Auerbach     |  43386120|       |        |
  casper@casper-PC ~ -&gt;
   11:16 PM Wed Dec 02$
  </code></pre>