The output of "ls" is pretty good because: 1. It calculate column width from widest columns. 2. It knows one Chinese ideograph is two letters wide. 3. It aligns columns by flexible space character instead of tab
Is there a text formatting command that formats text like "ls" while take user supplied input? If a command "unknown" can do this: $ ls | "unknown" should have the same output as $ ls -- P.S. this is indeed a re-post of previous of my post "expand (1) not useful enough. How about expandest?" but re-written with an example command that more people would be familiar with, a.k.a. ls, hoping to get more attention thus a result:)
