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| author | Benno Schulenberg | 2013-05-30 22:55:11 +0200 |
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| committer | Karel Zak | 2013-06-07 12:11:20 +0200 |
| commit | c927a0b9e715eb975035697c67bcea26c3dd44b2 (patch) | |
| tree | efdc06e4cf4fa245b43cfb11d85ac9fa961b9a7f /text-utils/column.1 | |
| parent | docs: normalize the formatting of man pages for nsenter and unshare (diff) | |
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docs: slightly correct the man page of column
Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'text-utils/column.1')
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1 files changed, 11 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/text-utils/column.1 b/text-utils/column.1 index b6da45f4a..fd87f50a5 100644 --- a/text-utils/column.1 +++ b/text-utils/column.1 @@ -36,14 +36,14 @@ column - columnate lists .SH SYNOPSIS .B column -.RI [ options ] -.IR file ... +.RB [ options ] +.RI [ file ...] .SH DESCRIPTION The .B column -utility formats its input into multiple columns. Rows -are filled before columns. Input is taken from \fIfile\fR or, by -default, from standard input. Empty lines are ignored. +utility formats its input into multiple columns. By default, rows +are filled before columns. Input is taken from \fIfile\fR, or +otherwise from standard input. Empty lines are ignored. .PP .SH OPTIONS .IP "\fB\-c, \-\-columns\fP \fIwidth\fP" @@ -51,15 +51,16 @@ Output is formatted to a width specified as number of characters. .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 separator. Table output is useful for pretty-printing. +supplied using the \fB\-\-output-separator\fP option. +Table output is useful for pretty-printing. .IP "\fB\-s, \-\-separator\fP \fIseparators\fP" -Specify possible table delimiters (default is whitespace). -.IP "\fB\-o, \-\-output-separator\fP \fIseparators\fP" -Specify table output delimiter (default is two whitespaces). +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\-h, \-\-help\fP" -Print help and exit. +Display a help text and exit. .SH ENVIRONMENT The environment variable COLUMNS is used to determine the size of the screen if no other information is available. |