97 lines
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Groff
97 lines
3 KiB
Groff
.\" $NetBSD: column.1,v 1.9 2009/03/09 19:24:32 joerg Exp $
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.\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1990, 1993
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.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
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.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
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.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
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.\" @(#)column.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
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.\"
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.Dd March 9, 2008
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.Dt COLUMN 1
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm column
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.Nd columnate lists
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Nm
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.Op Fl tx
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.Op Fl c Ar columns
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.Op Fl s Ar sep
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.Op Ar
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Nm
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utility formats its input into multiple columns.
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Rows are filled before columns.
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Input is taken from
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.Ar file
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operands, or, by default, from the standard input.
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Empty lines are ignored.
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.Pp
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The options are as follows:
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.Bl -tag -width Ds
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.It Fl c
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Output is formatted for a display
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.Ar columns
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wide.
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.It Fl s
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Specify a set of characters to be used to delimit columns for the
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.Fl t
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option.
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.It Fl t
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Determine the number of columns the input contains and create a table.
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Columns are delimited with whitespace, by default, or with the characters
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supplied using the
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.Fl s
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option.
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Useful for pretty-printing displays.
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.It Fl x
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Fill columns before filling rows.
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.El
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.Pp
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.Nm
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exits 0 on success, \*[Gt]0 if an error occurred.
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.Sh ENVIRONMENT
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.Bl -tag -width COLUMNS
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.It Ev COLUMNS
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The environment variable
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.Ev COLUMNS
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is used to determine the size of
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the screen if no other information is available.
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.El
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.Sh EXAMPLES
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.Dl (echo \&"PERM LINKS OWNER GROUP SIZE MONTH DAY HH:MM/YEAR NAME\&"\&;\ \&\e
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.Dl ls -l \&| sed 1d) \&| column -t
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr colrm 1 ,
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.Xr ls 1 ,
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.Xr paste 1 ,
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.Xr sort 1
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.Sh HISTORY
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The
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.Nm
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command appeared in
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.Bx 4.3 Reno .
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