Commands
colrm
[startcol [endcol]]
Removes the specified columns from a file. This command reads from standard input. Startcol must be specified. If no endcol is specified, colrm will remove all columns up to the end of the line. Otherwise, colrm will remove all the columns from startcol to endcol.
Example: To remove the first three characters from each line in a testfile, use
cat testfile | colrm 1 3
column
[-tx] [-c columns] [-s sep] [input_file …]
This program formats the input data into multiple columns. Typically, you will be formatting a file; however, if no file is specified, column will read from standard input.
Example: To create a table from a text file delimited by “|”s, use
column -t -s \| datafile.txt > table.txt
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