On Mon Oct 17, 2022 at 10:42 AM CEST, Karel Zak wrote: > I guess you want "table" mode for the column (see --table-* options). > It provides almost all features from libsmartcols. The next important > thing for your use-case is --output-separator, for example > > $ echo "AAA BBB CCC" | ./column -t --output-separator "..." > AAA...BBB...CCC > > of course you can use " " to define space as separator, etc. That doesn't quite work as a solution the moment that any item I want to display in a column contains spaces though. - Thomas