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column - columnate lists
SYNOPSIS
column [-tx] [-c columns] [-s sep] [file ... ]
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.
OPTIONS
The options are as follows:
-c columns
Output is formatted for a display columns wide.
-s sep
Specify a set of characters to be used to delimit col‐
umns for the -t option.
-t
Determine the number of columns the input contains and
create a table. Columns are delimited with white‐
space, by default, or with the characters supplied
using the s option. Useful for pretty-printing dis‐
plays.
-x
Fill columns before filling rows.
ENVIRONMENT
The COLUMNS , LANG , LC_ALL and LC_CTYPE environment variables affect
the execution of column as described in environ(5).
EXIT STATUS
The column utility exits 0 on success and >0 if an error occurs.
EXAMPLES
(printf "PERM LINKS OWNER GROUP SIZE MONTH DAY " ; \
printf "HH:MM/YEAR NAME\n" ; \
ls -l | sed 1d) | column -t
SEE ALSOls(1), paste(1), sort(1)HISTORY
The column command appeared in 4.3BSD-Reno.
BUGS
Input lines are limited to LINE_MAX bytes in length.
Jan 10, 2013 COLUMN(1)