NAME
shtool table - GNU shtool pretty-print a field-separated list
SYNOPSIS
shtool table
[-F|--field-sep sep]
[-w|--width width]
[-c|--columns cols]
[-s|--strip strip]
strsepstr...
DESCRIPTION
This pretty-prints a list of strings as a table.
OPTIONS
The following command line options are available.
"-F,
Separate columns using sep. Default is CW:.
"-w,
Width of each column. Default is 15 characters.
"-c,
Number of columns. Default is CW3.
"-s,
Strip off any characters past strip. Default is CW79.
EXAMPLE
# shell script
shtool table -F , -w 5 -c 4 "1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12"
HISTORY
The \s-1GNU\s0 shtool table command was originally written by Ralf S.
Engelschall <rse@engelschall.com> in 1999 for \s-1GNU\s0 shtool.
SEE ALSO
shtool(1), tr(1), fmt(1), sh(1), awk(1), sed(1).
