Package: bsdmainutils Version: 8.0.13 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/bin/column
$ for x in "" `seq 1 10` ; do for y in `seq 0 9` ; do echo -n "$x$y " ; done ; echo ; done | column -t 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 Ideally, I'd like to see the numeric columns decimal-aligned, which in this case would mean right-aligned. If doing this by default would cause compatibility issues, perhaps column could provide an option to enable this behavior. Thanks, Josh Triplett -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.36-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages bsdmainutils depends on: ii bsdutils 1:2.17.2-3.3 Basic utilities from 4.4BSD-Lite ii debianutils 3.4.1 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii libc6 2.11.2-7 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libncurses5 5.7+20100313-4 shared libraries for terminal hand bsdmainutils recommends no packages. Versions of packages bsdmainutils suggests: ii cpp 4:4.4.5-1 The GNU C preprocessor (cpp) pn vacation <none> (no description available) ii wamerican-huge [wordlist] 6-3 American English dictionary words ii whois 5.0.8 an intelligent whois client -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org