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31 .Nd pretty prints tabular data
39 utility reads files containing tabular data sequentially and pretty prints them as a table.
42 operands are processed in command-line order. If the
48 reads from standard input. The separator character of each column in the dataset can be specified at
49 run-time, which defaults to the comma character.
51 The options are as follows:
52 .Bl -tag -width indent
56 as the field delimiter character instead of the comma character.
61 utility exits 0 on success, and 1 if an error occurs.
63 Pretty print the text received from stdin where each field is separated by the comma character:
66 Pretty print file passed as parameter:
68 .Dl "tabular addresses.csv"
70 Pretty print files passed as parameters where the content of the second file is taken from stdin:
72 .Dl "tabular tally_cab.csv - addresses.csv"
74 Pipe the out of cat to tabular where the field separator is set to the semicolon character:
75 .Dl "cat names.csv | tabular -s ';'"
79 .Bl -tag -width indent
80 .It Input lines are limited to LINE_MAX bytes in length.
81 .It Only single character separators are allowed.
82 .It The program presumes the locale is UTF-8.
85 .An Alessio Chiapperini Aq Mt alessio.chiapperini@\:nullbuffer.com