1.\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1990, 1993 2.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 9.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 11.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 12.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 13.\" must display the following acknowledgement: 14.\" This product includes software developed by the University of 15.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. 16.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 17.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 18.\" without specific prior written permission. 19.\" 20.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 21.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 22.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 23.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 24.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 25.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 26.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 27.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 28.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 29.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 30.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 31.\" 32.\" @(#)column.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93 33.\" 34.Dd June 6, 1993 35.Os 36.Dt COLUMN 1 37.Sh NAME 38.Nm column 39.Nd columnate lists 40.Sh SYNOPSIS 41.Nm column 42.Op Fl tx 43.Op Fl c Ar columns 44.Op Fl s Ar sep 45.Op Ar 46.Sh DESCRIPTION 47The 48.Nm column 49utility formats its input into multiple columns. 50Rows are filled before columns. 51Input is taken from 52.Ar file 53operands, or, by default, from the standard input. 54Empty lines are ignored. 55.Pp 56The options are as follows: 57.Bl -tag -width Ds 58.It Fl c 59Output is formatted for a display 60.Ar columns 61wide. 62.It Fl s 63Specify a set of characters to be used to delimit columns for the 64.Fl t 65option. 66.It Fl t 67Determine the number of columns the input contains and create a table. 68Columns are delimited with whitespace, by default, or with the characters 69supplied using the 70.Fl s 71option. 72Useful for pretty-printing displays. 73.It Fl x 74Fill columns before filling rows. 75.El 76.Pp 77.Nm Column 78exits 0 on success, >0 if an error occurred. 79.Sh ENVIRONMENT 80.Bl -tag -width COLUMNS 81.It Ev COLUMNS 82The environment variable 83.Ev COLUMNS 84is used to determine the size of 85the screen if no other information is available. 86.El 87.Sh EXAMPLES 88.Dl (printf \&"PERM LINKS OWNER SIZE MONTH DAY HH:MM/YEAR NAME\en\&"\ \&;\ \&\e 89.Dl ls -l \&| sed 1d) \&| column -t 90.Sh SEE ALSO 91.Xr colrm 1 , 92.Xr ls 1 , 93.Xr paste 1 , 94.Xr sort 1 95.Sh HISTORY 96The 97.Nm 98command appeared in 99.Bx 4.3 Reno . 100