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@(#)column.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
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.Dd July 29, 2004 .Dt COLUMN 1 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm column .Nd columnate lists .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm .Op Fl tx .Op Fl c Ar columns .Op Fl s Ar sep .Op Ar .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Nm utility formats its input into multiple columns. Rows are filled before columns. Input is taken from .Ar file operands, or, by default, from the standard input. Empty lines are ignored.
p The options are as follows: l -tag -width indent t Fl c Output is formatted for a display .Ar columns wide. t Fl s Specify a set of characters to be used to delimit columns for the .Fl t option. t Fl 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 .Fl s option. Useful for pretty-printing displays. t Fl x Fill columns before filling rows. .El .Sh ENVIRONMENT The .Ev COLUMNS , LANG , LC_ALL and .Ev LC_CTYPE environment variables affect the execution of .Nm as described in .Xr environ 7 . .Sh EXIT STATUS .Ex -std .Sh EXAMPLES .Dl (printf "PERM LINKS OWNER GROUP SIZE MONTH DAY " ; \e .Dl printf "HH:MM/YEAR NAME\en" ; \e .Dl ls -l | sed 1d) | column -t .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr colrm 1 , .Xr ls 1 , .Xr paste 1 , .Xr sort 1 .Sh HISTORY The .Nm command appeared in x 4.3 Reno . .Sh BUGS Input lines are limited to .Dv LINE_MAX (2048) bytes in length.