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        !            20: .Dd July 24, 1990
        !            21: .Os BSD 4.4
        !            22: .Dt COLUMN 1
        !            23: .Sh NAME
        !            24: .Nm column
        !            25: .Nd columnate lists
        !            26: .Sh SYNOPSIS
        !            27: .Nm column
        !            28: .Oo
        !            29: .Op Fl t Ar x
        !            30: .Op Fl s Ar sep
        !            31: .Op Fl c Ar columns
        !            32: .Oo
        !            33: .Cx
        !            34: .Ar
        !            35: .Sh DESCRIPTION
        !            36: The
        !            37: .Nm column
        !            38: utility formats its input into multiple columns.
        !            39: Rows are filled before columns.
        !            40: Input is taken from
        !            41: .Ar file
        !            42: operands, or, by default, from the standard input.
        !            43: Empty lines are ignored.
        !            44: .Pp
        !            45: The options are as follows:
        !            46: .Tw Ds
        !            47: .Tp Fl c
        !            48: Output is formatted for a display
        !            49: .Ar columns
        !            50: wide.
        !            51: .Tp Fl s
        !            52: Specify a set of characters to be used to delimit columns for the
        !            53: .Fl t
        !            54: option.
        !            55: .Tp Fl t
        !            56: Determine the number of columns the input contains and create a table.
        !            57: Columns are delimited by whitespace, by default, or by the characters
        !            58: supplied using the
        !            59: .Fl s
        !            60: option.
        !            61: Useful for pretty-printing displays.
        !            62: .Tp Fl x
        !            63: Fill columns before filling rows.
        !            64: .Tp
        !            65: .Pp
        !            66: .Nm Column
        !            67: exits 0 on success, >0 if an error occurred.
        !            68: .Sh ENVIRONMENT
        !            69: .Tw Fl
        !            70: .Tp Ev COLUMNS
        !            71: The environment variable
        !            72: .Ev COLUMNS
        !            73: is used to determine the size of
        !            74: the screen if no other information is available.
        !            75: .Sh EXAMPLES
        !            76: .Dl (printf "PERM LINKS OWNER SIZE MONTH DAY HH:MM/YEAR NAME\en" \&;
        !            77: .Dl ls -l  sed 1d) \&| column -t
        !            78: .Sh SEE ALSO
        !            79: .Xr colrm 1 ,
        !            80: .Xr ls 1 ,
        !            81: .Xr paste 1 ,
        !            82: .Xr sort 1
        !            83: .Sh HISTORY
        !            84: 4.3 Reno BSD.

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