Different Ways to Use Column Command in Linux | Linux Today

Different Ways to Use Column Command in Linux

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Mar 10, 2021

In simple words, the column is a simple utility that can format your output into a column format (rows and fields) based on the structure of your source file. The column command is part of the util-linux package.

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