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1.13    ! jmc        33: .Dd $Mdocdate: March 11 2008 $
1.7       aaron      34: .Dt COLUMN 1
1.1       deraadt    35: .Os
                     36: .Sh NAME
                     37: .Nm column
                     38: .Nd columnate lists
                     39: .Sh SYNOPSIS
                     40: .Nm column
                     41: .Op Fl tx
                     42: .Op Fl c Ar columns
                     43: .Op Fl s Ar sep
                     44: .Op Ar
                     45: .Sh DESCRIPTION
                     46: The
1.4       aaron      47: .Nm
1.1       deraadt    48: utility formats its input into multiple columns.
                     49: Rows are filled before columns.
                     50: Input is taken from
                     51: .Ar file
                     52: operands, or, by default, from the standard input.
                     53: Empty lines are ignored.
                     54: .Pp
                     55: The options are as follows:
                     56: .Bl -tag -width Ds
1.3       aaron      57: .It Fl c Ar columns
1.1       deraadt    58: Output is formatted for a display
                     59: .Ar columns
                     60: wide.
1.3       aaron      61: .It Fl s Ar sep
1.1       deraadt    62: Specify a set of characters to be used to delimit columns for the
                     63: .Fl t
                     64: option.
                     65: .It Fl t
                     66: Determine the number of columns the input contains and create a table.
                     67: Columns are delimited with whitespace, by default, or with the characters
                     68: supplied using the
                     69: .Fl s
                     70: option.
                     71: Useful for pretty-printing displays.
                     72: .It Fl x
                     73: Fill columns before filling rows.
                     74: .El
                     75: .Sh ENVIRONMENT
                     76: .Bl -tag -width COLUMNS
                     77: .It Ev COLUMNS
                     78: The environment variable
                     79: .Ev COLUMNS
                     80: is used to determine the size of
                     81: the screen if no other information is available.
                     82: .El
1.13    ! jmc        83: .Sh EXIT STATUS
        !            84: .Ex -std column
1.10      jmc        85: .Sh EXAMPLES
1.12      jmc        86: List the current working directory's contents, in detail,
                     87: with nicely formatted headings for each of the fields:
                     88: .Bd -literal -offset 4n
                     89: $ (echo "PERM LINKS OWNER GROUP SIZE MONTH DAY HH:MM/YEAR NAME" ; \e
                     90:        ls -l | sed 1d) | column -t
                     91: .Ed
1.1       deraadt    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
1.6       aaron     100: command appeared in
1.1       deraadt   101: .Bx 4.3 Reno .