Hello, (I'm datamash's developer).
This is not a bug but intended operation: the 'scores.txt' is a tab-separated file. datamash maintains the tabs as in the input - this is how it should be. The output is not aligned on the terminal because some lines contain long text (longer than 8 characters) which then push the tab output to the next 'column'. It is equivalent to the following situation: $ printf "a\t1\nvery-long-text\t2\n" a 1 very-long-text 2 You can observe this with 'cat -A' (which displays tabs as '^I'): $ datamash -g 2 min 3 max 3 < scores.txt | cat -A Arts^I46^I88$ Business^I79^I94$ Health-Medicine^I72^I100$ Social-Sciences^I27^I90$ Life-Sciences^I14^I91$ Engineering^I39^I99$ If you want to align tab-separated values properly on the screen, use 'expand': $ datamash -g 2 min 3 max 3 < scores.txt | expand -t20,30 Arts 46 88 Business 79 94 Health-Medicine 72 100 Social-Sciences 27 90 Life-Sciences 14 91 Engineering 39 99 regards, - assaf -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1644703 Title: columns are not properly aligned To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/datamash/+bug/1644703/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
