> lines of text each consisting of space-separated fields I wish! Back in the day, tools like iostat and vmstat printed tabular data using fixed width fields w

> lines of text each consisting of space-separated fields I wish! Back in the day, tools like iostat and vmstat printed tabular data using fixed width fields with no spaces between. This worked fine until the computers got bigger and faster, then the larger numbers filled the fields so they ran together making the output unreadable. A surprising number of vendors had this problem.