COLUMN(1) User Commands COLUMN(1)NAMEcolumn - columnate lists
SYNOPSIScolumn [options] file...
DESCRIPTION
The column utility formats its input into multiple columns. Rows are
filled before columns. Input is taken from file or, by default, from
standard input. Empty lines are ignored.
OPTIONS-c, --columns width
Output is formatted to a width specified as number of characā
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 separator. Table output
is useful for pretty-printing.
-s, --separator separator
Specify table separator (default is whitespace).
-x, --fillrows
Fill columns before filling rows.
-h, --help
Print help 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
SEE ALSOcolrm(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)