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<H1>COLUMN</H1>
Section: User Commands (1)<BR><A HREF="#index">Index</A>
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<BR>BSD mandoc<BR>
<A NAME="lbAB">&nbsp;</A>
<H2>NAME</H2>
<B>column</B>
- columnate lists
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<H2>SYNOPSIS</H2>
<B></B>
[-<B>entx</B>
]
[-<B>c </B><I>columns</I>
]
[-<B>s </B><I>sep</I>
]
[<I>file ...</I>
]
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<H2>DESCRIPTION</H2>
The
<B></B>
utility formats its input into multiple columns.
Rows are filled before columns.
Input is taken from
<I>file</I>
operands, or, by default, from the standard input.
Empty lines are ignored unless the
-<B>e</B>
option is used.
<P>
The options are as follows:
<DL COMPACT>
<P>
<DT id="1"><B>-c</B>
<DD>
Output is formatted for a display
<I>columns</I>
wide.
<DT id="2"><B>-s</B>
<DD>
Specify a set of characters to be used to delimit columns for the
-<B>t</B>
option.
<DT id="3"><B>-t</B>
<DD>
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
-<B>s</B>
option.
Useful for pretty-printing displays.
<DT id="4"><B>-x</B>
<DD>
Fill columns before filling rows.
<DT id="5"><B>-n</B>
<DD>
By default, the column command will merge multiple adjacent delimiters into a
single delimiter when using the
-<B>t</B>
option; this option disables that behavior. This option is a Debian GNU/Linux extension.
<DT id="6"><B>-e</B>
<DD>
Do not ignore empty lines.
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<H2>ENVIRONMENT</H2>
The
<B>COLUMNS , LANG , LC_ALL</B>
and
<B>LC_CTYPE</B>
environment variables affect the execution of
<B></B>
as described in
<A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?7+environ">environ</A>(7).
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<H2>EXIT STATUS</H2>
Ex -std
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<H2>EXAMPLES</H2>
<BLOCKQUOTE><TT>(printf &quot;PERM LINKS OWNER GROUP SIZE MONTH DAY &quot;&nbsp;;&nbsp;\</TT></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE><TT>printf &quot;HH:MM/YEAR NAME\n&quot;&nbsp;;&nbsp;\</TT></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE><TT>ls -l | sed 1d) | column -t</TT></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<H2>SEE ALSO</H2>
<A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?1+colrm">colrm</A>(1),
<A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?1+ls">ls</A>(1),
<A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?1+paste">paste</A>(1),
<A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?1+sort">sort</A>(1)
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<H2>HISTORY</H2>
The
<B></B>
command appeared in
BSD 4.3 Reno
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<H2>BUGS</H2>
Input lines are limited to 512 times
<B>LINE_MAX</B>
(1M) wide characters in length.
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<A NAME="index">&nbsp;</A><H2>Index</H2>
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<DT id="7"><A HREF="#lbAB">NAME</A><DD>
<DT id="8"><A HREF="#lbAC">SYNOPSIS</A><DD>
<DT id="9"><A HREF="#lbAD">DESCRIPTION</A><DD>
<DT id="10"><A HREF="#lbAE">ENVIRONMENT</A><DD>
<DT id="11"><A HREF="#lbAF">EXIT STATUS</A><DD>
<DT id="12"><A HREF="#lbAG">EXAMPLES</A><DD>
<DT id="13"><A HREF="#lbAH">SEE ALSO</A><DD>
<DT id="14"><A HREF="#lbAI">HISTORY</A><DD>
<DT id="15"><A HREF="#lbAJ">BUGS</A><DD>
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