On Sat, 28 Aug 2010 09:14:01 +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote:

> The output of "ls" is pretty good because:
>
> 1. It calculate column width from widest columns. 2. It knows one
> Chinese ideograph is two letters wide. 3. It aligns columns by
> flexible space character instead of tab
>
> Is there a text formatting command that formats text like "ls" while
> take user supplied input?

You didn't provide a test case so here is mine:

$ perl -e 'foreach $ii (1..9){ foreach $jj (1..$ii) {print $ii; }; print
" $ii
"; } ' | tee /tmp/f1
1 1
22 2
333 3
4444 4
55555 5
666666 6
7777777 7
88888888 8
999999999 9

$ cat /tmp/f1 | column -t
1 1
22 2
333 3
4444 4
55555 5
666666 6
7777777 7
88888888 8
999999999 9

I also tried Chinese and it seems to be fine. Don't know if the following
will come up as expected after post...

echo "媒体称香港é�’年系被è*¦æ–¹å¤§é”¤é‡�创 x" >> /tmp/f1

$ cat /tmp/f1 | column -t
1 1
22 2
333 3
4444 4
55555 5
666666 6
7777777 7
88888888 8
999999999 9
媒体称香港é�’年系被è*¦æ–¹å¤§é”¤é‡�创 x

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On 2010年08月28日 12:08, T o n g wrote:
> You didn't provide a test case so here is mine: (followed by a case using column)
>

Thank you very much indeed. I wasn't aware of "column" command. Thank
you for your test case as well!

Best regards
Zhang Weiwu


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