[colug-432] Nice Plain Text Columns and Avoiding NIH: expand: not

[Eric Floehr]

Wow, TIL about the "column" command.  BSD/GNU/Linux continues to impress :-).

-Eric


On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Richard Holbert <holbert.13 at osu.edu> wrote:
> Will this work?
>
> cat foo.txt | column -t
>
> Or, if you want to specify the delimiter:
>
> cat foo.txt | column -t -s $','
>
> References:
> http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/7698/command-to-layout-tab-separated-list-nicely
> man column
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