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| author | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 19:54:44 -0400 |
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| committer | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 19:54:44 -0400 |
| commit | a9157ce950dfe2fc30795d43b9d79b9d1bffc48b (patch) | |
| tree | 9df484304b560466d145e662c1c254ff0e9ae0ba /static/openbsd/man1/column.1 | |
| parent | 160aa82b2d39c46ad33723d7d909cb4972efbb03 (diff) | |
docs: Added All OpenBSD Manuals
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diff --git a/static/openbsd/man1/column.1 b/static/openbsd/man1/column.1 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..9c88f10f --- /dev/null +++ b/static/openbsd/man1/column.1 @@ -0,0 +1,116 @@ +.\" $OpenBSD: column.1,v 1.18 2016/10/24 13:53:05 schwarze Exp $ +.\" $NetBSD: column.1,v 1.3 1995/03/26 09:08:28 glass Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1990, 1993 +.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors +.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software +.\" without specific prior written permission. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" @(#)column.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93 +.\" +.Dd $Mdocdate: October 24 2016 $ +.Dt COLUMN 1 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm column +.Nd columnate lists +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Nm column +.Op Fl tx +.Op Fl c Ar columns +.Op Fl s Ar sep +.Op Ar +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm +utility formats its input into multiple columns. +Each input line provides the text for one output cell. +Columns are filled before rows. +.Pp +The column width is determined by the longest input line rounded +up to the nearest tabstop; tabstops are assumed to be at multiples +of eight. +Output uses tab characters to advance to the next column. +The number of columns is chosen to fill the terminal width. +.Pp +Input is taken from +.Ar file +operands or, by default, from the standard input. +Empty lines and lines containing only whitespace are ignored. +.Pp +The options are as follows: +.Bl -tag -width Ds +.It Fl c Ar columns +Output is formatted for a display +.Ar columns +wide. +.It Fl s Ar sep +Specify a set of characters to delimit columns for the +.Fl t +option. +It defaults to space and tab. +.It Fl t +Table mode. +Each input line provides the text for one output row. +It is split into cells using the +.Fl s +option. +Leading, trailing, and multiple adjacent delimiters are ignored. +Each column is as wide as the widest cell in it. +Columns are separated by two spaces. +.It Fl x +Fill rows before filling columns. +.El +.Sh ENVIRONMENT +.Bl -tag -width LC_CTYPE +.It Ev COLUMNS +If set to a positive integer, +output is formatted to the given width in display columns. +Otherwise, +.Nm +defaults to the terminal width, or 80 columns if the output is not a terminal. +.It Ev LC_CTYPE +The character encoding +.Xr locale 1 . +It decides which byte sequences form characters, what their display +width is, and which characters are whitespace. +If unset or set to +.Qq C , +.Qq POSIX , +or an unsupported value, each byte except the tab is treated as a +character of display width 1. +.El +.Sh EXIT STATUS +.Ex -std column +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr colrm 1 , +.Xr fmt 1 , +.Xr paste 1 , +.Xr rs 1 +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Nm +command appeared in +.Bx 4.3 Reno . |
