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.\" 35.Dd June 6, 1993 36.Dt COLUMN 1 37.Os 38.Sh NAME 39.Nm column 40.Nd columnate lists 41.Sh SYNOPSIS 42.Nm 43.Op Fl tx 44.Op Fl c Ar columns 45.Op Fl s Ar sep 46.Op Ar 47.Sh DESCRIPTION 48The 49.Nm 50utility formats its input into multiple columns. 51Rows are filled before columns. 52Input is taken from 53.Ar file 54operands, or, by default, from the standard input. 55Empty lines are ignored. 56.Pp 57The options are as follows: 58.Bl -tag -width indent 59.It Fl c 60Output is formatted for a display 61.Ar columns 62wide. 63.It Fl s 64Specify a set of characters to be used to delimit columns for the 65.Fl t 66option. 67.It Fl t 68Determine the number of columns the input contains and create a table. 69Columns are delimited with whitespace, by default, or with the characters 70supplied using the 71.Fl s 72option. 73Useful for pretty-printing displays. 74.It Fl x 75Fill columns before filling rows. 76.El 77.Sh ENVIRONMENT 78.Bl -tag -width COLUMNS 79.It Ev COLUMNS 80The environment variable 81.Ev COLUMNS 82is used to determine the size of 83the screen if no other information is available. 84.El 85.Sh EXIT STATUS 86.Ex -std 87.Sh EXAMPLES 88.Dl (printf \&"PERM LINKS OWNER GROUP SIZE MONTH DAY \&"\ \&;\ \&\e 89.Dl printf \&"HH:MM/YEAR NAME\en\&"\ \&;\ \&\e 90.Dl ls -l \&| sed 1d) \&| column -t 91.Sh SEE ALSO 92.Xr colrm 1 , 93.Xr ls 1 , 94.Xr paste 1 , 95.Xr sort 1 96.Sh HISTORY 97The 98.Nm 99command appeared in 100.Bx 4.3 Reno . 101