COLUMN(1) MachTen Reference 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 de-
fault, 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.

Column exits 0 on success, >0 if an error occurred.

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

EXAMPLES
(printf "PERM LINKS OWNER SIZE MONTH DAY HH:MM/YEAR NAME0 ; 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.

4.4BSD June 6, 1993 1