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Have you ever used the "column" command?

tinkerbetter.tube Have you ever used the "column" command?

Yes, there's other tools that can make terminal output prettier on Linux. We all know that. But the "column" command is likely already there, on your system, waiting for you to use it. With "column...

Have you ever used the "column" command?
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  • I learned to write scripts on Windows Powershell and got spoiled by everything being an object so when I started writing bash scripts I think 90% of the work is trying to parse the raw text output of commands with things like awk or sed.

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