columns: add note about width

Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>

diff --git a/text-utils/column.1 b/text-utils/column.1
index 25fa7bab66586a93a093c689e2f45841a963c159..97cdd67c0a49be5a8fa5f8bb94f7bd78314d4bbc 100644 (file)
--- a/text-utils/column.1
+++ b/text-utils/column.1
@@ -66,7 +66,8 @@ Use JSON output format to print the table, the option
 \fB\-\-table\-columns\fP is required and the option \fB\-\-table\-name\fP is recommended.
 .IP "\fB\-c, \-\-output\-width\fP \fIwidth\fP"
 Output is formatted to a width specified as number of characters. The original
-name of this option is --columns; this name is deprecated since v2.30.
+name of this option is --columns; this name is deprecated since v2.30. Note that input
+longer than \fIwidth\fP is not truncated by default.
 .IP "\fB\-o, \-\-output\-separator\fP \fIstring\fP"
 Specify the columns delimiter for table output (default is two spaces).
 .IP "\fB\-s, \-\-separator\fP \fIseparators\fP"