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diff --git a/text_cmds/column/column.1 b/text_cmds/column/column.1 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b87eaa4 --- /dev/null +++ b/text_cmds/column/column.1 @@ -0,0 +1,101 @@ +.\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1990, 1993 +.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors +.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software +.\" without specific prior written permission. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" @(#)column.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93 +.\" $FreeBSD: src/usr.bin/column/column.1,v 1.16 2010/12/11 08:32:16 joel Exp $ +.\" +.Dd July 29, 2004 +.Dt COLUMN 1 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm column +.Nd columnate lists +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Nm +.Op Fl tx +.Op Fl c Ar columns +.Op Fl s Ar sep +.Op Ar +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm +utility formats its input into multiple columns. +Rows are filled before columns. +Input is taken from +.Ar file +operands, or, by default, from the standard input. +Empty lines are ignored. +.Pp +The options are as follows: +.Bl -tag -width indent +.It Fl c +Output is formatted for a display +.Ar columns +wide. +.It Fl s +Specify a set of characters to be used to delimit columns for the +.Fl t +option. +.It Fl t +Determine the number of columns the input contains and create a table. +Columns are delimited with whitespace, by default, or with the characters +supplied using the +.Fl s +option. +Useful for pretty-printing displays. +.It Fl x +Fill columns before filling rows. +.El +.Sh ENVIRONMENT +The +.Ev COLUMNS , LANG , LC_ALL +and +.Ev LC_CTYPE +environment variables affect the execution of +.Nm +as described in +.Xr environ 7 . +.Sh EXIT STATUS +.Ex -std +.Sh EXAMPLES +.Dl (printf \&"PERM LINKS OWNER GROUP SIZE MONTH DAY \&"\ \&;\ \&\e +.Dl printf \&"HH:MM/YEAR NAME\en\&"\ \&;\ \&\e +.Dl ls -l \&| sed 1d) \&| column -t +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr colrm 1 , +.Xr ls 1 , +.Xr paste 1 , +.Xr sort 1 +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Nm +command appeared in +.Bx 4.3 Reno . +.Sh BUGS +Input lines are limited to +.Dv LINE_MAX +(2048) bytes in length. |