This is the automatically generated usage text for columns.
The text printed is the same whether selected with the help option
(‘--help’) or the more-help option (‘--more-help’). more-help will print
the usage text by passing it through a pager program.
more-help is disabled on platforms without a working
fork(2) function. The PAGER environment variable is
used to select the program, defaulting to ‘more’. Both will exit
with a status code of 0.
columns (GNU AutoGen) - Columnize Input Text - Ver. 1.2
Usage: columns [ -<flag> [<val>] | --<name>[{=| }<val>] ]...
Specify the output dimensions:
Flg Arg Option-Name Description
-W Num width Maximum Line Width
- it must be in the range:
16 to 4095
-c Num columns Desired number of columns
- it must be in the range:
1 to 2048
-w Num col-width Set width of each column
- it must be in the range:
1 to 2048
Num tab-width tab width
Specify how to lay out the text:
Flg Arg Option-Name Description
Num spread maximum spread added to column width
- it must be in the range:
1 to 1024
no fill Fill lines with input
- prohibits these options:
spread
col-width
by-columns
-I Str indent Line prefix or indentation
Str first-indent First line prefix
- requires the option 'indent'
-f Str format Formatting string for each input
-S Str separation Separation string - follows all but last
Str line-separation string at end of all lines but last
Str ending string at end of last line
Specify the ordering of the entries:
Flg Arg Option-Name Description
no by-columns Print entries in column order
-s opt sort Sort input text
Redirecting stdin to an alternate file:
Flg Arg Option-Name Description
-i Str input Input file (if not stdin)
Version, usage and configuration options:
Flg Arg Option-Name Description
-v opt version output version information and exit
-? no help display extended usage information and exit
-! no more-help extended usage information passed thru pager
-> opt save-opts save the option state to a config file
-< Str load-opts load options from a config file
- disabled as '--no-load-opts'
- may appear multiple times
Options are specified by doubled hyphens and their name or by a single
hyphen and the flag character.
The following option preset mechanisms are supported:
- reading file ./.columnsrc
- reading file $HOME/.columnsrc
- examining environment variables named COLUMNS_*
Packaged by Bruce (2015年08月21日)
Report columns bugs to bkorb@gnu.org
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