Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:10:30 -0400 (EDT) From: vogelke+unix@pobox.com (Karl Vogel) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Display TSV files with columns aligned Message-ID: <20091021231030.81DCABE77@kev.msw.wpafb.af.mil> In-Reply-To: <25979622.post@talk.nabble.com> (message from Tom Worster on Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:55:07 -0700 (PDT))
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>> On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:55:07 -0700 (PDT), >> Tom Worster <fsb@thefsb.org> said: T> is there a cli command that lays out tsv files for display with a fixed T> width font? that is, it figures how wide each column needs to be and T> pads each field in the file with a suitable amount of space? http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~kinzler/align/ Align is a general-purpose text filter tool that helps vertically align columns in string-separated tables of input text. You can direct how the columns are separated on input and rejoined in the aligned output. It's great. -- Karl Vogel I don't speak for the USAF or my company Markets are self-correcting. That's why I trust markets more than governments. Governments usually aren't self-correcting until too late. --Interview with Walter Wriston as reported in Wired 4.10
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