Positioning strings with echo, CMD, Script in Windows MSDOS

Question

How I can to organize my output, showing my results like rows and columns? Example a:

DIR output: C:\Folder\*.*
Field1      Date       Time     Size
MidInf      2014/11/22 15:23    7664
FewInf      2014/11/22 15:23     548
Empty       2014/11/22 15:09       0
Someinf     2014/11/22 15:23     683
Empty       2014/11/22 15:09       0
Empty       2014/11/22 15:09       0
MidInf      2014/11/22 15:23    7729
FewInf      2014/11/22 15:23      65

Example now is with dir, but I wat to show other type information...

Other example:

C:\user\binder>netstat -nao | find /i "37"
  TCP    192.168.97.100:53377   23.7.112.60:443        ESTABLISHED     3260
  UDP    0.0.0.0:3702           *:*                                    1092
  UDP    0.0.0.0:3702           *:*                                    1828
  UDP    0.0.0.0:3702           *:*                                    1828
  UDP    0.0.0.0:3702           *:*                                    1092
  UDP    192.168.97.100:137     *:*                                    4
  UDP    [::]:3702              *:*                                    1828
  UDP    [::]:3702              *:*                                    1092
  UDP    [::]:3702              *:*                                    1092
  UDP    [::]:3702              *:*                                    1828

C:\user\binder>

Is possible?

EDIT:

for Windows only CMD or DOS

Answer 1

If you are using unix/linux with bash then the simplest way to output information in columns would be to pipe the information to the bash command 'column'. If for example you had a text file containing a list of things that you wanted to print out your command would be:

more foobar.txt | column

I often use 'column' with the grep command as well.

ls | grep "foobar" | column

This will print in a nice columnized fashion all filenames containing "foobar" in your current directory.

For more information about the column command type 'man column' into your terminal.

Answer 2

@ECHO OFF
SETLOCAL
CALL :FORMAT Field1 11 DATE 10 TIME 5 Size 7
FOR %%a IN (*.*) DO FOR /f "tokens=1,2" %%b IN ("%%~ta") DO CALL :FORMAT %%~nxa 11 %%b 10 %%c 5 %%~za -7

GOTO :EOF
:: Format parameter-pairs by right-pad/left-pad
:FORMAT
SET "spaces=                                                                     "
SET "line="
:formloop
SET column=%2
IF NOT DEFINED column ECHO(%line:~0,-1%&GOTO :EOF
SET column=%~1
IF %2 gtr 0 (SET "column=%column%%spaces%") ELSE (SET "column=%spaces%%column%")
IF %2 gtr 0 (CALL SET "line=%%line%%%%column:~0,%2%% ") ELSE (CALL SET "line=%%line%%%%column:~%2%% ")
shift&SHIFT
GOTO formloop

Here's a demo which should be fairly obvious. It shows sensitivity to the usual suspects; set the column-width of the elephant required negative to pad-left, positive to pad-right. I've assumed a space between each column. Marshalling the data for the report body depends on the particulars of the required report. Note that "" should produce a blank column.