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| author | Karel Zak | 2017-03-01 12:25:16 +0100 |
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| committer | Karel Zak | 2017-03-01 12:25:16 +0100 |
| commit | 3e094e5fe2b9949506cb0e65b9d25aa8c628751f (patch) | |
| tree | 0742e902af0f37eedb9913f9b5eaeca42863396f /text-utils/column.1 | |
| parent | libmount: cosmetic change to mnt_table_find_srcpath() (diff) | |
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column: make more obvious what is default behavior
The man page contains mistakes. The default is to fill columns before
lines:
$ printf 'aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa\nBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB\nXXXXXXX\nYYYYYYYYYYY\nZZZZZ' > data
$ column --columns 80 < data
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa XXXXXXX ZZZZZ
BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB YYYYYYYYYYY
$ column --fillrows --columns 80 < data
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB XXXXXXX
YYYYYYYYYYY ZZZZZ
The patch also rename functions in the code to make it more obvious
for code readers.
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'text-utils/column.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | text-utils/column.1 | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/text-utils/column.1 b/text-utils/column.1 index 5c6f36add..e861e0d29 100644 --- a/text-utils/column.1 +++ b/text-utils/column.1 @@ -40,8 +40,8 @@ column \- columnate lists .SH DESCRIPTION The .B column -utility formats its input into multiple columns. By default, rows -are filled before columns. Input is taken from \fIfile\fR, or +utility formats its input into multiple columns. By default, columns +are filled before rows. Input is taken from \fIfile\fR, or otherwise from standard input. Empty lines are ignored. .PP .SH OPTIONS @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ 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\-x, \-\-fillrows\fP" -Fill columns before filling rows. +Fill rows before filling columns. .IP "\fB\-V\fR, \fB\-\-version\fR" Display version information and exit. .IP "\fB\-h, \-\-help\fP" |