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1 | .\" Copyright (c) 1989 The Regents of the University of California. |
| 2 | .\" All rights reserved. | |
| 3 | .\" | |
| 4 | .\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms are permitted | |
| 5 | .\" provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph are | |
| 6 | .\" duplicated in all such forms and that any documentation, | |
| 7 | .\" advertising materials, and other materials related to such | |
| 8 | .\" distribution and use acknowledge that the software was developed | |
| 9 | .\" by the University of California, Berkeley. The name of the | |
| 10 | .\" University may not be used to endorse or promote products derived | |
| 11 | .\" from this software without specific prior written permission. | |
| 12 | .\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR | |
| 13 | .\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED | |
| 14 | .\" WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. | |
| 15 | .\" | |
| c379bc96 | 16 | .\" @(#)column.1 5.3 (Berkeley) %G% |
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17 | .\" |
| 18 | .UC 7 | |
| 19 | .TH COLUMN 1 "" | |
| 20 | .UC 1 | |
| 21 | .SH NAME | |
| 22 | column \- columnate lists | |
| 23 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
| c379bc96 | 24 | \fBcolumn [ \fI\-tx\fB ] [ \fI\-s sep\fB ] [\fI\-c columns\fB ] [ \fIfile ...\fB ] |
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25 | .ft R |
| 26 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
| 27 | The | |
| 28 | .I column | |
| 29 | utility formats its input into multiple columns. | |
| 30 | Rows are filled before columns. | |
| 31 | Input is taken from | |
| 32 | .I file | |
| 33 | operands, or, by default, from the standard input. | |
| 34 | Empty lines are ignored. | |
| 35 | .PP | |
| 36 | The options are as follows: | |
| 37 | .TP | |
| ff1bcce4 | 38 | .I \-c |
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39 | Output is formatted for a display |
| 40 | .I columns | |
| 41 | wide. | |
| 42 | .TP | |
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43 | .I \-s |
| 44 | Specify a set of characters to be used to delimit columns for the | |
| ff1bcce4 | 45 | .I \-t |
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46 | option. |
| 47 | .TP | |
| 48 | .I \-t | |
| 49 | Determine the number of columns the input contains and create a table. | |
| 50 | Columns are delimited by whitespace, by default, or by the characters | |
| 51 | supplied using the | |
| 52 | .I \-s | |
| 53 | option. | |
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54 | Useful for pretty-printing displays, for example: |
| 55 | .sp | |
| 56 | (printf "PERM LINKS OWNER SIZE MONTH DAY HH:MM/YEAR NAME\en"; | |
| 57 | .br | |
| 58 | ls -l | sed 1d) | column -t | |
| 59 | .TP | |
| 60 | .I \-x | |
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61 | Fill columns before filling rows. |
| 62 | .PP | |
| 63 | .I Column | |
| 64 | exits 0 on success, >0 if an error occurred. | |
| 65 | .SH ENVIRONMENT | |
| 66 | .TP | |
| 67 | .I COLUMNS | |
| 68 | The environmental variable COLUMNS is used to determine the size of | |
| 69 | the screen if no other information is available. | |
| 70 | .SH "SEE ALSO" | |
| ff1bcce4 | 71 | colrm(1), ls(1), paste(1), sort(1) |