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Asked: 2011-12-08 03:12:49 +0800 CST

Lining up output in linux cli

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I have a tool which outputs four columns of data with a space between each. However, the data items are variable length, and it's hard to read what's going on.

Is there a way I can line the output up using linux utilities to tabulate it for easy reading?

linux command-line-interface

1 Answers

  1. try this:

    cat $DataFile | column -t

    in debian column is in package bsdmainutils. and of course you can also use column -t $DataFile

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