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. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 13.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 14.\" without specific prior written permission. 15.\" 16.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 17.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 18.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 19.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 20.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 21.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 22.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 23.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 24.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 25.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 26.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 27.\" 28.\" @(#)column.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93 29.\" 30.Dd July 29, 2004 31.Dt COLUMN 1 32.Os 33.Sh NAME 34.Nm column 35.Nd columnate lists 36.Sh SYNOPSIS 37.Nm 38.Op Fl tx 39.Op Fl c Ar columns 40.Op Fl s Ar sep 41.Op Ar 42.Sh DESCRIPTION 43The 44.Nm 45utility formats its input into multiple columns. 46Rows are filled before columns. 47Input is taken from 48.Ar file 49operands, or, by default, from the standard input. 50Empty lines are ignored. 51.Pp 52The options are as follows: 53.Bl -tag -width indent 54.It Fl c 55Output is formatted for a display 56.Ar columns 57wide. 58.It Fl s 59Specify a set of characters to be used to delimit columns for the 60.Fl t 61option. 62.It Fl t 63Determine the number of columns the input contains and create a table. 64Columns are delimited with whitespace, by default, or with the characters 65supplied using the 66.Fl s 67option. 68Useful for pretty-printing displays. 69.It Fl x 70Fill columns before filling rows. 71.El 72.Sh ENVIRONMENT 73The 74.Ev COLUMNS , LANG , LC_ALL 75and 76.Ev LC_CTYPE 77environment variables affect the execution of 78.Nm 79as described in 80.Xr environ 7 . 81.Sh EXIT STATUS 82.Ex -std 83.Sh EXAMPLES 84.Dl (printf \&"PERM LINKS OWNER GROUP SIZE MONTH DAY \&"\ \&;\ \&\e 85.Dl printf \&"HH:MM/YEAR NAME\en\&"\ \&;\ \&\e 86.Dl ls -l \&| sed 1d) \&| column -t 87.Sh SEE ALSO 88.Xr colrm 1 , 89.Xr ls 1 , 90.Xr paste 1 , 91.Xr sort 1 92.Sh HISTORY 93The 94.Nm 95command appeared in 96.Bx 4.3 Reno . 97.Sh BUGS 98Input lines are limited to 99.Dv LINE_MAX 100(2048) bytes in length. 101