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| author | Anthony J. Bentley <bentley@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2016-03-17 05:27:11 +0000 |
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| committer | Anthony J. Bentley <bentley@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2016-03-17 05:27:11 +0000 |
| commit | 8fcd372cac9eb2e1f5b77be5c644c16050a14ff5 (patch) | |
| tree | 57ded33cc5e6839167ba569d1e58d6bb92f5bb85 /usr.bin/column/column.1 | |
| parent | 06ada816bc102f9194fd229056dd05d0a1c41409 (diff) | |
Switch (non-curses, non-ksh) programs that use COLUMNS to a single idiom.
Previously behaviors were all over the map. This changes them to
use COLUMNS first, and either terminal width or a hardcoded value
(typically 80) as appropriate.
ok deraadt@; man bits ok jmc@
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/column/column.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/column/column.1 | 14 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/column/column.1 b/usr.bin/column/column.1 index 8e9c3b13893..86c38f78d1d 100644 --- a/usr.bin/column/column.1 +++ b/usr.bin/column/column.1 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: column.1,v 1.14 2015/03/13 19:58:41 jmc Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: column.1,v 1.15 2016/03/17 05:27:10 bentley Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: column.1,v 1.3 1995/03/26 09:08:28 glass Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1990, 1993 @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ .\" .\" @(#)column.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93 .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: March 13 2015 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: March 17 2016 $ .Dt COLUMN 1 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -75,10 +75,12 @@ Fill columns before filling rows. .Sh ENVIRONMENT .Bl -tag -width COLUMNS .It Ev COLUMNS -The environment variable -.Ev COLUMNS -is used to determine the size of -the screen if no other information is available. +If set to a positive integer, +.Nm Ns 's +output is formatted to the given width in (terminal) columns. +Otherwise, +.Nm +defaults to the terminal width, or 80 columns if the output is not a terminal. .El .Sh EXIT STATUS .Ex -std column |