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

[Seth Hall]

On Aug 8, 2011, at 11:29 AM, Richard Holbert wrote:

> Please try the following to see if it also works as expected:
> 
> cat foo.txt | column -t -s $'\t'


Yep, that worked fine.  It's like "learn a new shell trick"-day. :)

When I'm doing log processing, it tends to be all interactive so <ctrl-v><tab> is nicer, but it's good to know the other technique too.

  .Seth

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