shtool-table (1) - Linux Manuals

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

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] strsepstr...

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 [at] engelschall.com> in 1999 for GNU shtool.

SEE ALSO

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