I get nice, clean output in my terminal. I think email might just be messing up the original example. The column command also has a flag to specify what character to use for separating the columns. The default is whitespace.
I use it pretty regularly to separate based on tabs. $ column -s "\t" -t foo.txt Or work with some CSV files? $ column -s ";" -t foo.csv $ column -s "," -t foo.csv On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 12:42 PM, Steven S. Critchfield <[email protected]>wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > > Consider when you type mount ( at least on OSX) > > > > $mount > > /dev/disk0s2 on / (hfs, local, journaled) > > devfs on /dev (devfs, local, nobrowse) > > map -hosts on /net (autofs, nosuid, automounted, nobrowse) > > map auto_home on /home (autofs, automounted, nobrowse) > > > > it gave me what I wanted, but it sure is sloppy. Let's see if we can't > > clean things up a bit. > > > > $ mount | column -t > > /dev/disk0s2 on / (hfs, local, journaled) > > devfs on /dev (devfs, local, nobrowse) > > map -hosts on /net (autofs, nosuid, > > automounted, nobrowse) > > map auto_home on /home (autofs, automounted, nobrowse) > > > > > > column can be used on any bit of output that you want in clean > > columns. > > > > This tip comes from reddit.com/r/linuxadmin > > > http://www.reddit.com/r/linuxadmin/comments/1x0ql2/whats_a_linux_command_you_wish_you_had_known/ > > Interesting command. I'll have to look at it again later. It did seem to > help the columns line up, but I noticed that the example has varied output > and made the columns not as useful. > > I could see using it possibly to correct text that was corrupted in a copy > paste maybe. > > -- > Steven Critchfield [email protected] > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
