1SHTOOL-TABLE.TMP(1) GNU Portable Shell Tool SHTOOL-TABLE.TMP(1)
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6 shtool table - GNU shtool pretty-print a field-separated list
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9 shtool table [-F|--field-sep sep] [-w|--width width] [-c|--columns
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13 This pretty-prints a list of strings as a table.
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16 The following command line options are available.
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18 -F, --field-sep sep
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32 shtool table -F , -w 5 -c 4 "1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12"
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35 The GNU shtool table command was originally written by Ralf S.
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39 shtool(1), tr(1), fmt(1), sh(1), awk(1), sed(1).
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4318-Jul-2008 shtool 2.0.8 SHTOOL-TABLE.TMP(1)