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Subject: Re: Display TSV files with columns aligned
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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!
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