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column: Format the output of a command for a 30 characters wide display.
$ printf "header1 header2\nbar foo\n" | column --output-width ${30}
try on your machine
This command uses the printf
command to generate a string with two lines of text: "header1 header2" and "bar foo".
The string is then passed as input to the column
command, which is used to format the data into columns.
The --output-width
option sets the width of the output columns to 30 characters.
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