1.\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1990, 1993 2.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" %sccs.include.redist.man% 5.\" 6.\" @(#)column.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 06/06/93 7.\" 8.Dd 9.Os 10.Dt COLUMN 1 11.Sh NAME 12.Nm column 13.Nd columnate lists 14.Sh SYNOPSIS 15.Nm column 16.Op Fl tx 17.Op Fl c Ar columns 18.Op Fl s Ar sep 19.Op Ar 20.Sh DESCRIPTION 21The 22.Nm column 23utility formats its input into multiple columns. 24Rows are filled before columns. 25Input is taken from 26.Ar file 27operands, or, by default, from the standard input. 28Empty lines are ignored. 29.Pp 30The options are as follows: 31.Bl -tag -width Ds 32.It Fl c 33Output is formatted for a display 34.Ar columns 35wide. 36.It Fl s 37Specify a set of characters to be used to delimit columns for the 38.Fl t 39option. 40.It Fl t 41Determine the number of columns the input contains and create a table. 42Columns are delimited with whitespace, by default, or with the characters 43supplied using the 44.Fl s 45option. 46Useful for pretty-printing displays. 47.It Fl x 48Fill columns before filling rows. 49.El 50.Pp 51.Nm Column 52exits 0 on success, >0 if an error occurred. 53.Sh ENVIRONMENT 54.Bl -tag -width COLUMNS 55.It Ev COLUMNS 56The environment variable 57.Ev COLUMNS 58is used to determine the size of 59the screen if no other information is available. 60.El 61.Sh EXAMPLES 62.Dl (printf \&"PERM LINKS OWNER SIZE MONTH DAY HH:MM/YEAR NAME\en\&"\ \&;\ \&\e 63.Dl ls -l \&| sed 1d) \&| column -t 64.Sh SEE ALSO 65.Xr colrm 1 , 66.Xr ls 1 , 67.Xr paste 1 , 68.Xr sort 1 69.Sh HISTORY 70The 71.Nm 72command appeared in 73.Bx 4.3 Reno . 74