COLUMN
Section: User Commands (1)
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NAME
column
- columnate lists
SYNOPSIS
[-ntx
]
[-c columns
]
[-s sep
]
[file ...
]
DESCRIPTION
The
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.
- -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.
- -n
-
By default, the column command will merge multiple adjacent delimiters into a
single delimiter when using the
--t
option; this option disables that behavior. This option is a Debian GNU/Linux extension.
ENVIRONMENT
The
COLUMNS , LANG , LC_ALL
and
LC_CTYPE
environment variables affect the execution of
as described in
environ(7).
EXIT STATUS
Ex -std
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
command appeared in
BSD 4.3 Reno
BUGS
Input lines are limited to
LINE_MAX
(2048) bytes in length.
Index
- NAME
-
- SYNOPSIS
-
- DESCRIPTION
-
- ENVIRONMENT
-
- EXIT STATUS
-
- EXAMPLES
-
- SEE ALSO
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- HISTORY
-
- BUGS
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