From: "Thomas Voss" <mail@thomasvoss.com>
To: "Karel Zak" <kzak@redhat.com>
Cc: "util-linux" <util-linux@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Proposal for new column(1) flag
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2022 12:10:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CNO47QIM62X8.1T7V20XJ1ESE3@mango-os> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20221017084247.egoe7ljueklp5jvb@ws.net.home>
On Mon Oct 17, 2022 at 10:42 AM CEST, Karel Zak wrote:
> I guess you want "table" mode for the column (see --table-* options).
> It provides almost all features from libsmartcols. The next important
> thing for your use-case is --output-separator, for example
>
> $ echo "AAA BBB CCC" | ./column -t --output-separator "..."
> AAA...BBB...CCC
>
> of course you can use " " to define space as separator, etc.
That doesn't quite work as a solution the moment that any item I want to
display in a column contains spaces though.
- Thomas
prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-17 10:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-10-13 19:26 Proposal for new column(1) flag Thomas Voss
2022-10-13 20:43 ` Bernhard Voelker
[not found] ` <CNO4L8IMOGYS.1DZ36WVMXZ8K4@mango-os>
2022-10-17 18:08 ` Bernhard Voelker
2022-10-17 8:42 ` Karel Zak
2022-10-17 10:10 ` Thomas Voss [this message]
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