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COLUMN(1)			 User Commands			     COLUMN(1)

NAME
       column - columnate lists

SYNOPSIS
       column [options] [file...]

DESCRIPTION
       The  column  utility  formats  its  input  into	multiple  columns.  By
       default, rows are filled before columns.	 Input is taken from file,  or
       otherwise from standard input.  Empty lines are ignored.

OPTIONS
       -c, --columns width
	      Output  is  formatted  to a width specified as number of charac‐
	      ters.

       -t, --table
	      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   --output-separator
	      option.  Table output is useful for pretty-printing.

       -s, --separator separators
	      Specify  the  possible  input item delimiters (default is white‐
	      space).

       -o, --output-separator string
	      Specify the columns delimiter for table output (default  is  two
	      spaces).

       -x, --fillrows
	      Fill columns before filling rows.

       -h, --help
	      Display help text and exit.

ENVIRONMENT
       The  environment	 variable COLUMNS is used to determine the size of the
       screen if no other information is available.

EXAMPLES
       sed 's/#.*//' /etc/fstab | column -t

BUGS
       The util-linux version 2.23 changed -s option  to  be  non-greedy,  for
       example:

       $ printf "a:b:c\n1::3\n" | column  -t -s ':'

       old output:
       a  b  c
       1  3

       new output (since util-linux 2.23)
       a  b  c
       1     3

SEE ALSO
       colrm(1), ls(1), paste(1), sort(1)

HISTORY
       The column command appeared in 4.3BSD-Reno.

AVAILABILITY
       The  column  command is part of the util-linux package and is available
       from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.

util-linux			 October 2010			     COLUMN(1)
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