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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 .