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COLUMN(1) General Commands Manual COLUMN(1) NAME column -- columnate lists SYNOPSIS column [-tx] [-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 de- fault, from the standard input. Empty lines are ignored. The options are as follows: -c Output is formatted for a display columns wide. -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. ENVIRONMENT The COLUMNS, LANG, LC_ALL and LC_CTYPE environment variables affect the execution of column as described in environ(7). 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 ALSO colrm(1), ls(1), paste(1), sort(1) HISTORY The column command appeared in 4.3BSD-Reno. BUGS Input lines are limited to LINE_MAX (2048) bytes in length. FreeBSD 13.2 July 29, 2004 COLUMN(1)
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