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From: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>
To: "Util-Linux" <util-linux@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: column: does '--fillrows' fill columns first?
Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 23:55:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1369950934.2640.140661237825437.1D1D200C@webmail.messagingengine.com> (raw)


Hello,

The man page of 'column' says that it fills rows before columns, and
for the option '--fillrows' it says that it then fills columns first.
(Seems like a very poor naming choice to me, but... okay.)  But then,
the help text says that '--fillrows' fills rows first.  The latter
seems to be correct, because '-x' never seems to have any effect.

So, how does one fill columns first?  Also: what is '-c' supposed to
do?  It doesn't seem to have any effect ever either.

Regards,

Benno

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