NAME
column —
columnate lists
SYNOPSIS
column |
[-tx]
[-c
columns]
[-s sep]
[file ...] |
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:
-
-
- -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.
ENVIRONMENT
-
-
COLUMNS
- The environment variable
COLUMNS
is
used to determine the size of the screen if no other information is
available.
EXIT STATUS
The
column utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if
an error occurs.
EXAMPLES
(echo "PERM LINKS OWNER GROUP SIZE MONTH
DAY HH:MM/YEAR NAME"; \
ls -l | sed 1d) | column -t
SEE ALSO
colrm(1),
ls(1),
paste(1),
sort(1)
HISTORY
The
column command appeared in
4.3BSD-Reno.