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COLUMN(1) BSD General Commands Manual COLUMN(1)
NAME
column — columnate lists
SYNOPSIS
column [−ntx] [−c columns] [−s sep] [file ...]
DESCRIPTION
The column utility formats its input into multiple columns. Rows are filled before columns. Input is taken from file operands, or, by default, from the standard input. Empty lines are ignored.
The options are as follows:
−c
Output is formatted for a display columns wide.
−n
By default, the column command will merge multiple adjacent delimiters into a single delimiter when using the −t option; this option disables that behavior.
−s
Specify a set of characters to be used to delimit columns for the −t option.
−t
Determine the number of columns the input contains and create a table. Columns are delimited with whitespace, by default, or with the characters supplied using the −s option. Useful for pretty-printing displays.
−x
Fill columns before filling rows.
DIAGNOSTICS
The column utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
ENVIRONMENT
COLUMNS
The environment variable COLUMNS is used to determine the size of the screen if no other information is available.
EXAMPLES
To add headings to the output of ls(1):
(echo
"PERM LINKS OWNER GROUP SIZE MONTH DAY HH:MM/YEAR
NAME"; \
LANG=C ls -l | sed 1d) | column -t
To print the wordlist in columns:
column /usr/share/dict/words
The previous examples fills rows before columns (the first column might start with aardvark, while the second with mighty). To fill columns before rows (such that the first line might contain aardvark and abacus):
column -x /usr/share/dict
SEE ALSO
colrm(1), ls(1), paste(1), sort(1)
HISTORY
The column command appeared in 4.3BSD−Reno.
BSD September 21, 2003 BSD
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