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

Stephen Potter spp at unixsa.net
Mon Aug 29 12:14:33 EDT 2011


On 8/8/2011 11:29 AM, Richard Holbert wrote:
> Seth,
> Please try the following to see if it also works as expected:
>
> cat foo.txt | column -t -s $'\t'
>

Why the extraneous "cat" in there?  Why not just

column -t -s $'\t' foo.txt

-spp


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