bash "read -p"
awk 'NR == FNR {
/^[ \t]*\47name/ && c++ # get the field number
if (/^[ \t]*\47size/) {
split($0, t, ":")
gsub(/[ \t\47,]/, x, t[2]) # strip punctuation
fmt[c] = t[2] # get the size
}
next # run the above actions
} # + only for the first input file
{
for (i=1; i<=NF; i++) # output the strings in the correct format
printf "%" (length($i) > fmt[i] ? "." : "-" ) fmt[i] "s", $i
print x
}' config.txt temp.txt