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

[Richard Holbert]

On 08/29/2011 12:14 PM, Stephen Potter wrote:
> 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
I like to treat data flow like signal flow with inputs / outputs, and 
programming like circuit design.

As a westerner, I tend to draw my schematic diagrams from left to right. 
So, I have signal source followed by transfer function(s) until I 
achieve the desired output.

Rick