1.\" $NetBSD: column.1,v 1.6 2002/02/08 01:36:21 ross Exp $ 2.\" 3.\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1990, 1993 4.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 5.\" 6.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 7.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 8.\" are met: 9.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 11.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 12.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 13.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 14.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 15.\" must display the following acknowledgement: 16.\" This product includes software developed by the University of 17.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. 18.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 19.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 20.\" without specific prior written permission. 21.\" 22.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 23.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 24.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 25.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 26.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 27.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 28.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 29.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 30.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 31.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 32.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 33.\" 34.\" @(#)column.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93 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 Ds 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.Pp 79.Nm 80exits 0 on success, \*[Gt]0 if an error occurred. 81.Sh ENVIRONMENT 82.Bl -tag -width COLUMNS 83.It Ev COLUMNS 84The environment variable 85.Ev COLUMNS 86is used to determine the size of 87the screen if no other information is available. 88.El 89.Sh EXAMPLES 90.Dl (printf \&"PERM LINKS OWNER SIZE MONTH DAY 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