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                     35: .\"     @(#)column.1   8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
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                     37: .Dd June 6, 1993
                     38: .Os
                     39: .Dt COLUMN 1
                     40: .Sh NAME
                     41: .Nm column
                     42: .Nd columnate lists
                     43: .Sh SYNOPSIS
                     44: .Nm column
                     45: .Op Fl tx
                     46: .Op Fl c Ar columns
                     47: .Op Fl s Ar sep
                     48: .Op Ar
                     49: .Sh DESCRIPTION
                     50: The
1.4       aaron      51: .Nm
1.1       deraadt    52: utility formats its input into multiple columns.
                     53: Rows are filled before columns.
                     54: Input is taken from
                     55: .Ar file
                     56: operands, or, by default, from the standard input.
                     57: Empty lines are ignored.
                     58: .Pp
                     59: The options are as follows:
                     60: .Bl -tag -width Ds
1.3       aaron      61: .It Fl c Ar columns
1.1       deraadt    62: Output is formatted for a display
                     63: .Ar columns
                     64: wide.
1.3       aaron      65: .It Fl s Ar sep
1.1       deraadt    66: Specify a set of characters to be used to delimit columns for the
                     67: .Fl t
                     68: option.
                     69: .It Fl t
                     70: Determine the number of columns the input contains and create a table.
                     71: Columns are delimited with whitespace, by default, or with the characters
                     72: supplied using the
                     73: .Fl s
                     74: option.
                     75: Useful for pretty-printing displays.
                     76: .It Fl x
                     77: Fill columns before filling rows.
                     78: .El
                     79: .Pp
1.6     ! aaron      80: The
1.4       aaron      81: .Nm
1.3       aaron      82: utility exits 0 on success or >0 if an error occurred.
1.1       deraadt    83: .Sh ENVIRONMENT
                     84: .Bl -tag -width COLUMNS
                     85: .It Ev COLUMNS
                     86: The environment variable
                     87: .Ev COLUMNS
                     88: is used to determine the size of
                     89: the screen if no other information is available.
                     90: .El
                     91: .Sh EXAMPLES
1.5       aaron      92: .Dl (printf \&"PERM\ LINKS\ OWNER\ GROUP\ SIZE\ MONTH\ DAY\ HH:MM/YEAR\ NAME\en\&"\ \&; ls -l\ \&| sed 1d) \&| column -t
1.1       deraadt    93: .Sh SEE ALSO
                     94: .Xr colrm 1 ,
                     95: .Xr ls 1 ,
                     96: .Xr paste 1 ,
                     97: .Xr sort 1
                     98: .Sh HISTORY
                     99: The
                    100: .Nm
1.6     ! aaron     101: command appeared in
1.1       deraadt   102: .Bx 4.3 Reno .