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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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