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COLUMN(1) General Commands Manual COLUMN(1) NAME column -- columnate lists SYNOPSIS column [-tx] [-c columns] [-l tblcols] [-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. -l When used with -t, limit the table to tblcols columns in width. The last column will contain the rest of the line, including any delimiters. -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 ta- ble. 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 ex- ecution 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 ports 15.1 May 13, 2025 COLUMN(1)
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