19b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1990, 1993 29b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 39b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\" 49b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 59b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 69b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\" are met: 79b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 89b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 99b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 109b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 119b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 129b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 139b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\" must display the following acknowledgement: 149b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\" This product includes software developed by the University of 159b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. 169b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 179b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 189b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\" without specific prior written permission. 199b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\" 209b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 219b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 229b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 239b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 249b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 259b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 269b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 279b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 289b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 299b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 309b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 319b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\" 329b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\" @(#)column.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93 33c3aac50fSPeter Wemm.\" $FreeBSD$ 349b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\" 355480f120STim J. Robbins.Dd July 29, 2004 369b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Os 379b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Dt COLUMN 1 389b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Sh NAME 399b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Nm column 409b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Nd columnate lists 419b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Sh SYNOPSIS 428fe908efSRuslan Ermilov.Nm 439b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Op Fl tx 449b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Op Fl c Ar columns 459b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Op Fl s Ar sep 469b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Op Ar 479b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Sh DESCRIPTION 489b50d902SRodney W. GrimesThe 492e184158SPhilippe Charnier.Nm 509b50d902SRodney W. Grimesutility formats its input into multiple columns. 519b50d902SRodney W. GrimesRows are filled before columns. 529b50d902SRodney W. GrimesInput is taken from 539b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Ar file 549b50d902SRodney W. Grimesoperands, or, by default, from the standard input. 559b50d902SRodney W. GrimesEmpty lines are ignored. 569b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Pp 579b50d902SRodney W. GrimesThe options are as follows: 582e184158SPhilippe Charnier.Bl -tag -width indent 599b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.It Fl c 609b50d902SRodney W. GrimesOutput is formatted for a display 619b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Ar columns 629b50d902SRodney W. Grimeswide. 639b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.It Fl s 649b50d902SRodney W. GrimesSpecify a set of characters to be used to delimit columns for the 659b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Fl t 669b50d902SRodney W. Grimesoption. 679b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.It Fl t 689b50d902SRodney W. GrimesDetermine the number of columns the input contains and create a table. 699b50d902SRodney W. GrimesColumns are delimited with whitespace, by default, or with the characters 709b50d902SRodney W. Grimessupplied using the 719b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Fl s 729b50d902SRodney W. Grimesoption. 739b50d902SRodney W. GrimesUseful for pretty-printing displays. 749b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.It Fl x 759b50d902SRodney W. GrimesFill columns before filling rows. 769b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.El 772e184158SPhilippe Charnier.Sh DIAGNOSTICS 78d628d776SRuslan Ermilov.Ex -std 799b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Sh ENVIRONMENT 805480f120STim J. RobbinsThe 815480f120STim J. Robbins.Ev COLUMNS , LANG , LC_ALL 825480f120STim J. Robbinsand 835480f120STim J. Robbins.Ev LC_CTYPE 845480f120STim J. Robbinsenvironment variables affect the execution of 855480f120STim J. Robbins.Nm 865480f120STim J. Robbinsas described in 875480f120STim J. Robbins.Xr environ 7 . 889b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Sh EXAMPLES 899c276042SGuy Helmer.Dl (printf \&"PERM LINKS OWNER GROUP SIZE MONTH DAY \&"\ \&;\ \&\e 909c276042SGuy Helmer.Dl printf \&"HH:MM/YEAR NAME\en\&"\ \&;\ \&\e 919b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Dl ls -l \&| sed 1d) \&| column -t 929b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Sh SEE ALSO 939b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Xr colrm 1 , 949b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Xr ls 1 , 959b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Xr paste 1 , 969b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Xr sort 1 979b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Sh HISTORY 989b50d902SRodney W. GrimesThe 999b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Nm 1009b50d902SRodney W. Grimescommand appeared in 1019b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Bx 4.3 Reno . 1028a68dbebSTim J. Robbins.Sh BUGS 1034438d91eSRuslan ErmilovInput lines are limited to 1044438d91eSRuslan Ermilov.Dv LINE_MAX 1054438d91eSRuslan Ermilov(2048) bytes in length. 106