Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 05:19:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Worster <fsb@thefsb.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Display TSV files with columns aligned Message-ID: <26008928.post@talk.nabble.com> In-Reply-To: <20091022012438.9C74CBE77@kev.msw.wpafb.af.mil> References: <25979622.post@talk.nabble.com> <20091021231030.81DCABE77@kev.msw.wpafb.af.mil> <26002100.post@talk.nabble.com> <20091022012438.9C74CBE77@kev.msw.wpafb.af.mil>
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Karl Vogel-3 wrote: > >>> Tom Worster <fsb@thefsb.org> said: > > T> if only it had a way to truncate fields in a column that has a few > T> really long strings in it. thanks for pointing me to it. i'll see if i > T> can't figure out the script and how to modify it to add this trick. > > It would be lots easier to write a smaller script which finds and chops > the columns you like, and pipe the output to align. > i think you're right. that would be an easy script. thanks again! -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Display-TSV-files-with-columns-aligned-tp25979622p26008928.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
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