.SH ENVIRONMENT
The environment variable \fBCOLUMNS\fR is used to determine the size of
the screen if no other information is available.
-.SH EXAMPLE
-Print fstab with header line and align number to the right:
-.EX
-\fBsed 's/#.*//' /etc/fstab | column \-\-table \-\-table-columns SOURCE,TARGET,TYPE,OPTIONS,PASS,FREQ \-\-table-right PASS,FREQ\fR
-.EE
-.PP
-Print fstab and hide unnamed columns:
-.EX
-\fBsed 's/#.*//' /etc/fstab | column \-\-table \-\-table-columns SOURCE,TARGET,TYPE \-\-table-hide \-\fR
-.EE
-.PP
-
-.PP
-Print a tree:
-.EX
-\fBecho \-e '1 0 A\\n2 1 AA\\n3 1 AB\\n4 2 AAA\\n5 2 AAB' | column \-\-tree-id 1 \-\-tree-parent 2 \-\-tree 3\fR
-1 0 A
-2 1 |-AA
-4 2 | |-AAA
-5 2 | `-AAB
-3 1 `-AB
-.EE
+.SH HISTORY
+The column command appeared in 4.3BSD-Reno.
.SH BUGS
Version 2.23 changed the
.B \-s
.B column
may continue to use the older documentation, but the behavior should be
identical in any case.
+.SH EXAMPLE
+Print fstab with header line and align number to the right:
+.EX
+\fBsed 's/#.*//' /etc/fstab | column \-\-table \-\-table-columns SOURCE,TARGET,TYPE,OPTIONS,PASS,FREQ \-\-table-right PASS,FREQ\fR
+.EE
+.PP
+Print fstab and hide unnamed columns:
+.EX
+\fBsed 's/#.*//' /etc/fstab | column \-\-table \-\-table-columns SOURCE,TARGET,TYPE \-\-table-hide \-\fR
+.EE
+.PP
+
+.PP
+Print a tree:
+.EX
+\fBecho \-e '1 0 A\\n2 1 AA\\n3 1 AB\\n4 2 AAA\\n5 2 AAB' | column \-\-tree-id 1 \-\-tree-parent 2 \-\-tree 3\fR
+1 0 A
+2 1 |-AA
+4 2 | |-AAA
+5 2 | `-AAB
+3 1 `-AB
+.EE
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR colrm (1),
.BR ls (1),
.BR paste (1),
.BR sort (1)
-.SH HISTORY
-The column command appeared in 4.3BSD-Reno.
.SH AVAILABILITY
The column command is part of the util-linux package and is available from
https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.