[colug-432] Nice Plain Text Columns and Avoiding NIH: column works

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On Mon, 08 Aug 2011 10:14:05 -0400, 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 $','

Yup. That is what I needed. 

Thanks for: 

    o   answering the question asked, 
    o   helping me reuse existing code, 
    o   helping me avoid NIH, and 
    o   the leading '$' technique.