NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
The
utility formats its input into multiple columns.
Rows are filled before columns.
Input is taken from
operands, or, by default, from the standard input.
Empty lines are ignored.
The options are as follows:
- c
Output is formatted for a display
wide.
- s
Specify a set of characters to be used to delimit columns for the
option.
- 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
option.
Useful for pretty-printing displays.
- x
Fill columns before filling rows.
exits 0 on success, >0 if an error occurred.
ENVIRONMENT
- COLUMNS
The environment variable
is used to determine the size of
the screen if no other information is available.
EXAMPLES
SEE ALSO
HISTORY
The
command appeared in
x 4.3 Reno .
AVAILABILITY
The column command is part of the util-linux-ng package and is available from
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/.
