Timeline for How do I convert a single column to 3 columns?
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| Feb 29, 2020 at 4:22 | vote | accept | Kalpesh Bhoj | ||
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| Feb 26, 2020 at 23:38 | history | edited | JoL | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
add comments on column and pr
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| Feb 26, 2020 at 16:46 | comment | added | JoL |
@iruvar I see online manpages do say that it's for "display columns". Mine comes from the package util-linux in Archlinux. I imagine all linux distros use the same one as mine. I also checked a FreeBSD/PfSense installation and seq 10 | column -c 3 also displays a single column.
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| Feb 26, 2020 at 16:46 | comment | added | iruvar |
Ah, they seem to have changed that in a recent version of column. The man page for my obsolete version states this : -c Output is formatted for a display columns wide. Anyways, +1
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| Feb 26, 2020 at 16:31 | comment | added | JoL |
@iruvar Are you talking about column -c? That seems to be for setting the line width. According to the manpage: "Output is formatted to a width specified as number of characters." It was originally named --columns, but that name was deprecated in favor of --output-width. seq 10 | column -c 3 displays a single column. column -c 50 seems to limit lines to 50 characters.
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| Feb 26, 2020 at 16:25 | comment | added | iruvar |
JoL, sorry if I was not clear - my previous comment was in response to your question around the ability to specify number of columns to the column command. One could do that using -c
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| Feb 26, 2020 at 16:17 | comment | added | JoL | @iruvar I'm not sure what you're getting at. The number of display columns is what we want. The actual number displayed may be less than specified if it otherwise would not fit in the set line width, which by default is 79, but other than that I don't see an issue. | |
| Feb 26, 2020 at 14:24 | comment | added | iruvar |
JoL, the -c flag exists to specify the number of display columns, which may or may not be different to the "number of columns" that columns allows to specify
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| Feb 26, 2020 at 0:15 | comment | added | JoL |
@iruvar That column doesn't seem to have a way to specify number of columns.
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| Feb 25, 2020 at 23:11 | comment | added | iruvar |
this seems to work more or less the same way as the better known column command. Any reason to pick columns over column that you might be aware of?
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| Feb 25, 2020 at 12:34 | history | edited | JdeBP | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Have some more information.
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| Feb 25, 2020 at 7:36 | history | answered | JoL | CC BY-SA 4.0 |