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.\" $FreeBSD$ 30.\" 31.Dd July 29, 2004 32.Dt COLUMN 1 33.Os 34.Sh NAME 35.Nm column 36.Nd columnate lists 37.Sh SYNOPSIS 38.Nm 39.Op Fl tx 40.Op Fl c Ar columns 41.Op Fl s Ar sep 42.Op Ar 43.Sh DESCRIPTION 44The 45.Nm 46utility formats its input into multiple columns. 47Rows are filled before columns. 48Input is taken from 49.Ar file 50operands, or, by default, from the standard input. 51Empty lines are ignored. 52.Pp 53The options are as follows: 54.Bl -tag -width indent 55.It Fl c 56Output is formatted for a display 57.Ar columns 58wide. 59.It Fl s 60Specify a set of characters to be used to delimit columns for the 61.Fl t 62option. 63.It Fl t 64Determine the number of columns the input contains and create a table. 65Columns are delimited with whitespace, by default, or with the characters 66supplied using the 67.Fl s 68option. 69Useful for pretty-printing displays. 70.It Fl x 71Fill columns before filling rows. 72.El 73.Sh ENVIRONMENT 74The 75.Ev COLUMNS , LANG , LC_ALL 76and 77.Ev LC_CTYPE 78environment variables affect the execution of 79.Nm 80as described in 81.Xr environ 7 . 82.Sh EXIT STATUS 83.Ex -std 84.Sh EXAMPLES 85.Dl (printf \&"PERM LINKS OWNER GROUP SIZE MONTH DAY \&"\ \&;\ \&\e 86.Dl printf \&"HH:MM/YEAR NAME\en\&"\ \&;\ \&\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.Sh BUGS 99Input lines are limited to 100.Dv LINE_MAX 101(2048) bytes in length. 102