Will this work?<br>     <br>     cat foo.txt | column -t<br>     <br>     Or, if you want to specify the delimiter:<br>     <br>     cat foo.txt | column -t -s $','<span class="comment-copy"><code><br>       </code></span><br>     References:<br> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/7698/command-to-layout-tab-separated-list-nicely">http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/7698/command-to-layout-tab-separated-list-nicely</a><br>     man column