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Manual

SHTOOL-TABLE.TMP

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
EXAMPLE
HISTORY
SEE ALSO

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NAME

shtool-table - GNU shtool pretty-print a field-separated list

SYNOPSIS

shtool table [ -F | --field-sep sep ] [ -w | --width width ] [ -c | --columns cols ] [ -s | --strip strip ] str sep str ...

DESCRIPTION

This pretty-prints a list of strings as a table.

OPTIONS

The following command line options are available.
-F , --field-sep sep

Separate columns using sep . Default is ":".

-w , --width width

Width of each column. Default is 15 characters.

-c , --columns cols

Number of columns. Default is 3.

-s , --strip strip

Strip off any characters past strip . Default is 79.

EXAMPLE

# shell script
shtool table -F , -w 5 -c 4 "1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12"

HISTORY

The GNU shtool table command was originally written by Ralf S. Engelschall <rse@engelschall.com> in 1999 for GNU shtool .

SEE ALSO

shtool (1), tr (1), fmt (1), sh (1), awk (1), sed (1).

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