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shtool table [-F|--field-sep sep] [-w|--width width] [-c|--columns cols] [-s|--strip strip] strsepstr...

This pretty-prints a list of strings as a table.

The following command line options are available.

-F,  --field-sep sep

Separate columns using sep. Default is :.

-w,  --width width

Width of each column. Default is 15 characters.

-c,  --columns cols

Number of columns. Default is 3.

-s,  --strip strip

Strip off any characters past strip. Default is 79.

 #   shell script
 shtool table -F , -w 5 -c 4 "1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12"

The GNU shtool table command was originally written by Ralf S. Engelschall <rse@engelschall.com> in 1999 for GNU shtool.

shtool(1), tr(1), fmt(1), sh(1), awk(1), sed(1).

shtool(1).