1.\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1990, 1993 2.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 9.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 11.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 12.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 13.\" must display the following acknowledgement: 14.\" This product includes software developed by the University of 15.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. 16.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 17.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 18.\" without specific prior written permission. 19.\" 20.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 21.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 22.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 23.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 24.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 25.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 26.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 27.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 28.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 29.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 30.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 31.\" 32.\" @(#)column.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93 33.\" $FreeBSD: src/usr.bin/column/column.1,v 1.5.2.4 2001/08/16 13:16:46 ru Exp $ 34.\" $DragonFly: src/usr.bin/column/column.1,v 1.3 2006/02/17 19:38:59 swildner Exp $ 35.\" 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 44.Op Fl tx 45.Op Fl c Ar columns 46.Op Fl s Ar sep 47.Op Ar 48.Sh DESCRIPTION 49The 50.Nm 51utility formats its input into multiple columns. 52Rows are filled before columns. 53Input is taken from 54.Ar file 55operands, or, by default, from the standard input. 56Empty lines are ignored. 57.Pp 58The options are as follows: 59.Bl -tag -width indent 60.It Fl c 61Output is formatted for a display 62.Ar columns 63wide. 64.It Fl s 65Specify a set of characters to be used to delimit columns for the 66.Fl t 67option. 68.It Fl t 69Determine the number of columns the input contains and create a table. 70Columns are delimited with whitespace, by default, or with the characters 71supplied using the 72.Fl s 73option. 74Useful for pretty-printing displays. 75.It Fl x 76Fill columns before filling rows. 77.El 78.Sh ENVIRONMENT 79.Bl -tag -width COLUMNS 80.It Ev COLUMNS 81The environment variable 82.Ev COLUMNS 83is used to determine the size of 84the screen if no other information is available. 85.El 86.Sh EXIT STATUS 87.Ex -std 88.Sh EXAMPLES 89.Dl (printf \&"PERM LINKS OWNER GROUP SIZE MONTH DAY \&"\ \&;\ \&\e 90.Dl printf \&"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 98The 99.Nm 100command appeared in 101.Bx 4.3 Reno . 102