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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_* Please send bug reports to: <autogen-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
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