1COLUMN(1) 386BSD Reference Manual COLUMN(1) 2 3NNAAMMEE 4 ccoolluummnn - columnate lists 5 6SSYYNNOOPPSSIISS 7 ccoolluummnn [--cc_c_o_l_u_m_n_s] [--ss_s_e_p] [--ttxx] [_f_i_l_e ...] 8 9DDEESSCCRRIIPPTTIIOONN 10 The ccoolluummnn utility formats its input into multiple columns. Rows are 11 filled before columns. Input is taken from _f_i_l_e operands, or, by 12 default, from the standard input. Empty lines are ignored. 13 14 The options are as follows: 15 16 --cc Output is formatted for a display _c_o_l_u_m_n_s wide. 17 18 --ss Specify a set of characters to be used to delimit columns for the 19 --tt option. 20 21 --tt Determine the number of columns the input contains and create a 22 table. Columns are delimited with whitespace, by default, or 23 with the characters supplied using the --ss option. Useful for 24 pretty-printing displays. 25 26 --xx Fill columns before filling rows. 27 28 CCoolluummnn exits 0 on success, >0 if an error occurred. 29 30EENNVVIIRROONNMMEENNTT 31 COLUMNS The environment variable COLUMNS is used to determine the size 32 of the screen if no other information is available. 33 34EEXXAAMMPPLLEESS 35 (printf "PERM LINKS OWNER SIZE MONTH DAY HH:MM/YEAR NAME\n" ; 36 ls -l | sed 1d) | column -t 37 38SSEEEE AALLSSOO 39 colrm(1), ls(1), paste(1), sort(1) 40 41HHIISSTTOORRYY 42 The ccoolluummnn command appeared in 4.3BSD-Reno. 43 44BSD Experimental March 14, 1991 1 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67