On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 17:37:42 -0600, Mike Vanecek wrote: > I have looked through my books and googled ... Tried serveral things without > success ... > > I would like to run the output of a bash command that produces 1 field per > line output through sort and then output in 3 columns. I have looked at > printf, fmt, column, and so on. > > For example, > > rpm -qa | sort 2>&1 | column -c 2 > > rpm -qa | sort | column -c 2 Option -c sets the screen width, i.e. the number of horizontal characters, where one character = one column. So, you don't want "-c 2", but something way bigger than 2, so two RPM package names always fit onto the screen horizontally. -- Fedora Core release 3 (Heidelberg) - Linux 2.6.9-1.681_FC3 loadavg: 1.23 1.19 1.07 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
