01-09-2008
columnating text
I have a file /T, where the text of that file is:
1
2
3
4
5
6
I wish to change that to a two-column format
column </T --(output set to new document) gets:
1 2 3 4 5 6
which probably makes sense as I have no option and no argument.
column -c <T (output set to new document) yields nothing, which makes sense because I haven't specified an argument
column -c 2 </T -- (output set to new document) I expect
1 2
3 4
5 6
BUT get
1
2
3
4
5
6
It would seem I'm specifying the argument incorrectly. If that's true, what is the proper syntax?
And, if I can get past the above problem, what's the story with an -x option; it doesn't appear in the "man column" I've looked at, but elsewhere I've seen it stated that (with that option) I should get:
1 4
2 5
3 6
help? TIA
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WCWIDTH(3) BSD Library Functions Manual WCWIDTH(3)
NAME
wcwidth, wcwidth_l -- number of column positions of a wide-character code
LIBRARY
Standard C Library (libc, -lc)
SYNOPSIS
#include <wchar.h>
int
wcwidth(wchar_t wc);
#include <wchar.h>
#include <xlocale.h>
int
wcwidth_l(wchar_t wc, locale_t loc);
DESCRIPTION
The wcwidth() function determines the number of column positions required to display the wide character wc.
Although the wcwidth() function uses the current locale, the wcwidth_l() function may be passed a locale directly. See xlocale(3) for more
information.
RETURN VALUES
The wcwidth() function returns 0 if the wc argument is a null wide character (L'