1.\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1990 The Regents of the University of California. 2.\" All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" %sccs.include.redist.man% 5.\" 6.\" @(#)column.1 5.7 (Berkeley) 09/07/90 7.\" 8.Dd 9.Os BSD 4.4 10.Dt COLUMN 1 11.Sh NAME 12.Nm column 13.Nd columnate lists 14.Sh SYNOPSIS 15.Nm column 16.Oo 17.Op Fl t Ar x 18.Op Fl s Ar sep 19.Op Fl c Ar columns 20.Oo 21.Cx 22.Ar 23.Sh DESCRIPTION 24The 25.Nm column 26utility formats its input into multiple columns. 27Rows are filled before columns. 28Input is taken from 29.Ar file 30operands, or, by default, from the standard input. 31Empty lines are ignored. 32.Pp 33The options are as follows: 34.Tw Ds 35.Tp Fl c 36Output is formatted for a display 37.Ar columns 38wide. 39.Tp Fl s 40Specify a set of characters to be used to delimit columns for the 41.Fl t 42option. 43.Tp Fl t 44Determine the number of columns the input contains and create a table. 45Columns are delimited by whitespace, by default, or by the characters 46supplied using the 47.Fl s 48option. 49Useful for pretty-printing displays. 50.Tp Fl x 51Fill columns before filling rows. 52.Tp 53.Pp 54.Nm Column 55exits 0 on success, >0 if an error occurred. 56.Sh ENVIRONMENT 57.Tw Fl 58.Tp Ev COLUMNS 59The environment variable 60.Ev COLUMNS 61is used to determine the size of 62the screen if no other information is available. 63.Sh EXAMPLES 64.Dl (printf \&"PERM LINKS OWNER SIZE MONTH DAY HH:MM/YEAR NAME\en\&"\ \&; \e 65.Dl ls -l \&| sed 1d) \&| column -t 66.Sh SEE ALSO 67.Xr colrm 1 , 68.Xr ls 1 , 69.Xr paste 1 , 70.Xr sort 1 71.Sh HISTORY 724.3 Reno BSD. 73