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32 .\" @(#)column.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
50 utility formats its input into multiple columns.
51 Rows are filled before columns.
54 operands, or, by default, from the standard input.
55 Empty lines are ignored.
57 The options are as follows:
58 .Bl -tag -width indent
60 Output is formatted for a display
64 Specify a set of characters to be used to delimit columns for the
68 Determine the number of columns the input contains and create a table.
69 Columns are delimited with whitespace, by default, or with the characters
73 Useful for pretty-printing displays.
75 Fill columns before filling rows.
80 utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
82 .Bl -tag -width COLUMNS
84 The environment variable
86 is used to determine the size of
87 the screen if no other information is available.
90 .Dl (printf \&"PERM LINKS OWNER GROUP SIZE MONTH DAY \&"\ \&;\ \&\e
91 .Dl printf \&"HH:MM/YEAR NAME\en\&"\ \&;\ \&\e
92 .Dl ls -l \&| sed 1d) \&| column -t