The options are as follows:
Tag | Description |
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-c | Output is formatted for a display columns wide. |
-s | Specify a set of characters to be used to delimit columns for the -t option. |
-t | Determine the number of columns the input contains and create a table. Columns are delimited with whitespace, by default, or with the characters supplied using the -s option. Useful for pretty-printing displays. |
-x | Fill columns before filling rows. |
Column exits 0 on success, >0 if an error occurred.
Tag | Description |
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COLUMNS | |
The environment variable COLUMNS is used to determine the size of the screen if no other information is available. |
(printf PERM LINKS OWNER GROUP SIZE MONTH DAY HH:MM/YEAR NAME\n \
; ls -l | sed 1d) | column -t
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