oh, your 2 emails indeed didn't come thru ... I guess because there were 3 attachments. Hereby forwarding... On 10/17/22 12:27, Thomas Voss wrote:
NOTE: Sorry if this email is a duplicate, I have been trying to send this for a good while but theres something wrong with my email client configuration that I need to try to figure out. Also in my first email I made some references to "center", I actually meant to say "column", center is just a tool I was writing some code for when sending that email so it was stuck in my head. --- On Thu Oct 13, 2022 at 10:43 PM CEST, Bernhard Voelker wrote:Hmm, you missed to give actual examples. Is it like the output of this? $ ls * | column -xc $COLUMNS | column -tNot quite, let me give you a real-world example (and the thing that prompted me to think of adding this feature). I have a simple script on my system that has a list of movies, and I want to be able to display them all nicely in columns. At the moment I am doing this, which is not optimal because the gaps between columns are too large, it results in 5 columns and 8 rows: $ column -x movie-list This is what your suggestion looks like, and it also resuts in 5 columns and 8 rows but much more squished together: $ column -xc $COLUMNS movie-list | column -t And finally this is a really stupid solution which creates a file for each line of the file and then uses ls to print them, it results in 6 columns and 6 rows, which is more space-efficient, and what I would like to be able to get as output: #!/bin/sh while read f; do touch $f done <../movie-list ls * rm * The outputs are included in files attached to this email
Have a nice day, Berny
