1.\" $NetBSD: column.1,v 1.9 2009/03/09 19:24:32 joerg Exp $ 2.\" 3.\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1990, 1993 4.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 5.\" 6.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 7.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 8.\" are met: 9.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 11.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 12.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 13.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 14.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 15.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 16.\" without specific prior written permission. 17.\" 18.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 19.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 20.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 21.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 22.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 23.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 24.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 25.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 26.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 27.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 28.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 29.\" 30.\" @(#)column.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93 31.\" 32.Dd March 9, 2008 33.Dt COLUMN 1 34.Os 35.Sh NAME 36.Nm column 37.Nd columnate lists 38.Sh SYNOPSIS 39.Nm 40.Op Fl tx 41.Op Fl c Ar columns 42.Op Fl s Ar sep 43.Op Ar 44.Sh DESCRIPTION 45The 46.Nm 47utility formats its input into multiple columns. 48Rows are filled before columns. 49Input is taken from 50.Ar file 51operands, or, by default, from the standard input. 52Empty lines are ignored. 53.Pp 54The options are as follows: 55.Bl -tag -width Ds 56.It Fl c 57Output is formatted for a display 58.Ar columns 59wide. 60.It Fl s 61Specify a set of characters to be used to delimit columns for the 62.Fl t 63option. 64.It Fl t 65Determine the number of columns the input contains and create a table. 66Columns are delimited with whitespace, by default, or with the characters 67supplied using the 68.Fl s 69option. 70Useful for pretty-printing displays. 71.It Fl x 72Fill columns before filling rows. 73.El 74.Pp 75.Nm 76exits 0 on success, \*[Gt]0 if an error occurred. 77.Sh ENVIRONMENT 78.Bl -tag -width COLUMNS 79.It Ev COLUMNS 80The environment variable 81.Ev COLUMNS 82is used to determine the size of 83the screen if no other information is available. 84.El 85.Sh EXAMPLES 86.Dl (echo \&"PERM LINKS OWNER GROUP SIZE MONTH DAY HH:MM/YEAR NAME\&"\&;\ \&\e 87.Dl ls -l \&| sed 1d) \&| column -t 88.Sh SEE ALSO 89.Xr colrm 1 , 90.Xr ls 1 , 91.Xr paste 1 , 92.Xr sort 1 93.Sh HISTORY 94The 95.Nm 96command appeared in 97.Bx 4.3 Reno . 98