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        !            34: .\"     @(#)column.1   8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
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        !            36: .Dd June 6, 1993
        !            37: .Os
        !            38: .Dt COLUMN 1
        !            39: .Sh NAME
        !            40: .Nm column
        !            41: .Nd columnate lists
        !            42: .Sh SYNOPSIS
        !            43: .Nm column
        !            44: .Op Fl tx
        !            45: .Op Fl c Ar columns
        !            46: .Op Fl s Ar sep
        !            47: .Op Ar
        !            48: .Sh DESCRIPTION
        !            49: The
        !            50: .Nm column
        !            51: utility formats its input into multiple columns.
        !            52: Rows are filled before columns.
        !            53: Input is taken from
        !            54: .Ar file
        !            55: operands, or, by default, from the standard input.
        !            56: Empty lines are ignored.
        !            57: .Pp
        !            58: The options are as follows:
        !            59: .Bl -tag -width Ds
        !            60: .It Fl c
        !            61: Output is formatted for a display
        !            62: .Ar columns
        !            63: wide.
        !            64: .It Fl s
        !            65: Specify a set of characters to be used to delimit columns for the
        !            66: .Fl t
        !            67: option.
        !            68: .It Fl t
        !            69: Determine the number of columns the input contains and create a table.
        !            70: Columns are delimited with whitespace, by default, or with the characters
        !            71: supplied using the
        !            72: .Fl s
        !            73: option.
        !            74: Useful for pretty-printing displays.
        !            75: .It Fl x
        !            76: Fill columns before filling rows.
        !            77: .El
        !            78: .Pp
        !            79: .Nm Column
        !            80: exits 0 on success, >0 if an error occurred.
        !            81: .Sh ENVIRONMENT
        !            82: .Bl -tag -width COLUMNS
        !            83: .It Ev COLUMNS
        !            84: The environment variable
        !            85: .Ev COLUMNS
        !            86: is used to determine the size of
        !            87: the screen if no other information is available.
        !            88: .El
        !            89: .Sh EXAMPLES
        !            90: .Dl (printf \&"PERM LINKS OWNER SIZE MONTH DAY HH:MM/YEAR NAME\en\&"\ \&;\ \&\e
        !            91: .Dl ls -l \&| sed 1d) \&| column -t
        !            92: .Sh SEE ALSO
        !            93: .Xr colrm 1 ,
        !            94: .Xr ls 1 ,
        !            95: .Xr paste 1 ,
        !            96: .Xr sort 1
        !            97: .Sh HISTORY
        !            98: The
        !            99: .Nm
        !           100: command appeared in
        !           101: .Bx 4.3 Reno .