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column: make more obvious what is default behavior
authorKarel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Wed, 1 Mar 2017 11:25:16 +0000 (12:25 +0100)
committerKarel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Wed, 1 Mar 2017 11:25:16 +0000 (12:25 +0100)
commit3e094e5fe2b9949506cb0e65b9d25aa8c628751f
tree0742e902af0f37eedb9913f9b5eaeca42863396f
parent7bb9ee99da6558f75a1931bb95580124853f3e06
column: make more obvious what is default behavior

The man page contains mistakes. The default is to fill columns before
lines:

$ printf 'aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa\nBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB\nXXXXXXX\nYYYYYYYYYYY\nZZZZZ' > data

$ column --columns 80 < data
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa XXXXXXX ZZZZZ
BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB YYYYYYYYYYY

$ column  --fillrows --columns 80 < data
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB XXXXXXX
YYYYYYYYYYY ZZZZZ

The patch also rename functions in the code to make it more obvious
for code readers.

Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
text-utils/column.1
text-utils/column.c