column
Created: August 31, 2020
- Takes tabular data and outputs a table.
- Looks for whitespace to delimit columns by default.
- Basic usage:
column -t FILE; will read from STDOUT whenFILEis not specified.
Key Flags
| Description | Command |
|---|---|
| Determine the number of columns the input contains and create a table. | -t |
| Specify a delimiter other than whitespace. | -s DELIMITER |
Other Flags
| Description | Command |
|---|---|
| Output is formatted for a display columns wide. | -c |
| Fill columns before filling rows. | -x |
| Disable merging adjacent delimiter characters. This option is a Debian extension. | -n |
| Do not ignore empty lines. | e |