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COL(1) General Commands Manual COL(1) NAME col - column alignment SYNOPSIS col [ -bfx ] DESCRIPTION Col overlays lines to expunge reverse line feeds (ESC-7) and half line feeds (ESC-9 and ESC-8) as produced by nroff for .2C in ms((7)) or man((7)) and for tbl((1)). Col is a pure filter. It normally emits only full line feeds; option -f (fine) allows half line feeds too. Op- tion -b removes backspaces, printing just one of each pile of over- struck characters. Col normally converts white space to tabs; option -x overrides this feature. Other escaped characters and non-printing characters are ignored. EXAMPLES tbl file | nroff -ms | col | p Format some tables for printing on typewriters; use col to re- move reverse line feeds, and paginate the output. SOURCE /src/cmd/col.c SEE ALSO pr((1)) BUGS Col can't back up more than 128 lines or handle more than 800 charac- ters per line, and understands (013) as reverse line feed. COL(1)
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