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column - Unix, Linux Command
NAME
column
- columnate lists
SYNOPSIS
column
[-tx]
[-c columns]
[-s sep]
[]
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:
Tag | Description |
-c
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Output is formatted for a display
columns
wide.
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-s
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Specify a set of characters to be used to delimit columns for the
-t
option.
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-t
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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.
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-x
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Fill columns before filling rows.
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Column
exits 0 on success, >0 if an error occurred.
ENVIRONMENT
Tag | Description |
COLUMNS
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The environment variable
COLUMNS
is used to determine the size of
the screen if no other information is available.
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EXAMPLES
(printf PERM LINKS OWNER GROUP SIZE MONTH DAY HH:MM/YEAR NAME\n \
; ls -l | sed 1d) | column -t
SEE ALSO
ls(1),
paste(1),
sort(1)
HISTORY
The
column
command appeared in
BSD 4.3 Reno .
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