NAME
column —
columnate lists
SYNOPSIS
column |
[-tx] [-c
columns] [-s
sep] [file ...] |
DESCRIPTION
Thecolumn 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
-toption. -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
-soption. Useful for pretty-printing displays. -x- Fill columns before filling rows.
ENVIRONMENT
The COLUMNS, LANG,
LC_ALL and LC_CTYPE
environment variables affect the execution 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
-tSEE ALSO
HISTORY
The column command appeared in
4.3BSD-Reno.
BUGS
Input lines are limited to LINE_MAX (2048)
bytes in length.