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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Removing blank columns from a file Post 302226318 by sumirmehta on Monday 18th of August 2008 05:15:52 PM
Old 08-18-2008
there are certain variations to the file mentioned above

1. the width of a column is fixed (say 10) but that includes the numbers and padded spaces, so it could be "1234 " and "123456 "

2. there are other columns as well (3 shown here for simplicity), and any of the columns in between could be blank.

The real problem here is that as there are spaces in the columns which have values (padded spaces) as well as there are columns which are totally blank, it is difficult to identify the diff between them..
 

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git-column

GIT-COLUMN(1)							    Git Manual							     GIT-COLUMN(1)

NAME

       git-column - Display data in columns

SYNOPSIS

       git column [--command=<name>] [--[raw-]mode=<mode>] [--width=<width>]
		    [--indent=<string>] [--nl=<string>] [--padding=<n>]

DESCRIPTION

       This command formats its input into multiple columns.

OPTIONS

       --command=<name>
	   Look up layout mode using configuration variable column.<name> and column.ui.

       --mode=<mode>
	   Specify layout mode. See configuration variable column.ui for option syntax.

       --raw-mode=<n>
	   Same as --mode but take mode encoded as a number. This is mainly used by other commands that have already parsed layout mode.

       --width=<width>
	   Specify the terminal width. By default git column will detect the terminal width, or fall back to 80 if it is unable to do so.

       --indent=<string>
	   String to be printed at the beginning of each line.

       --nl=<N>
	   String to be printed at the end of each line, including newline character.

       --padding=<N>
	   The number of spaces between columns. One space by default.

AUTHOR

       Written by Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com[1]>

GIT

       Part of the git(1) suite

NOTES

	1. pclouds@gmail.com
	   mailto:pclouds@gmail.com

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