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| author | Benno Schulenberg | 2014-07-15 23:07:36 +0200 |
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| committer | Karel Zak | 2014-07-16 12:03:25 +0200 |
| commit | 07990fdcd4e71ebc5a6a0029a183ad58d8b7b209 (patch) | |
| tree | 7d4e59165803fcc05d31bae32458d2b043244082 /text-utils/column.1 | |
| parent | lslogins: make --notruncate more robust (diff) | |
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docs: bring several man pages closer to standard formatting
Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'text-utils/column.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | text-utils/column.1 | 27 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/text-utils/column.1 b/text-utils/column.1 index 33c09e4b1..305119f29 100644 --- a/text-utils/column.1 +++ b/text-utils/column.1 @@ -31,12 +31,11 @@ .\" .\" @(#)column.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93 .\" -.TH COLUMN 1 "October 2010" "util-linux" "User Commands" +.TH COLUMN 1 "July 2014" "util-linux" "User Commands" .SH NAME column - columnate lists .SH SYNOPSIS -.B column -.RB [ options ] +.BR column " [options]" .RI [ file ...] .SH DESCRIPTION The @@ -48,42 +47,44 @@ otherwise from standard input. Empty lines are ignored. .SH OPTIONS .IP "\fB\-c, \-\-columns\fP \fIwidth\fP" Output is formatted to a width specified as number of characters. +.IP "\fB\-o, \-\-output-separator\fP \fIstring\fP" +Specify the columns delimiter for table output (default is two spaces). +.IP "\fB\-s, \-\-separator\fP \fIseparators\fP" +Specify the possible input item delimiters (default is whitespace). .IP "\fB\-t, \-\-table\fP" Determine the number of columns the input contains and create a table. Columns are delimited with whitespace, by default, or with the characters supplied using the \fB\-\-output-separator\fP option. Table output is useful for pretty-printing. -.IP "\fB\-s, \-\-separator\fP \fIseparators\fP" -Specify the possible input item delimiters (default is whitespace). -.IP "\fB\-o, \-\-output-separator\fP \fIstring\fP" -Specify the columns delimiter for table output (default is two spaces). .IP "\fB\-x, \-\-fillrows\fP" Fill columns before filling rows. +.IP "\fB\-V\fR, \fB\-\-version\fR" +Display version information and exit. .IP "\fB\-h, \-\-help\fP" Display help text and exit. .SH ENVIRONMENT -The environment variable COLUMNS is used to determine the size of +The environment variable \fBCOLUMNS\fR is used to determine the size of the screen if no other information is available. .SH EXAMPLES .nf -sed 's/#.*//' /etc/fstab | column -t +.B sed 's/#.*//' /etc/fstab | column -t .nf .SH BUGS -The util-linux version 2.23 changed +Version 2.23 changed the .B \-s option to be non-greedy, for example: .PP .EX -$ printf "a:b:c\\n1::3\\n" | column -t -s ':' +\fBprintf "a:b:c\\n1::3\\n" | column -t -s ':'\fR .EE .PP -old output: +Old output: .EX a b c 1 3 .EE .PP -new output (since util-linux 2.23) +New output (since util-linux 2.23): .EX a b c 1 3 |