COLUMN(1) |
FreeBSD General Commands Manual |
COLUMN(1) |
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
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 -t
HISTORY
The
column command appeared in
4.3BSD-Reno.
BUGS
Input lines are limited to
LINE_MAX (2048) bytes in length.