Have you ever used the "column" command?
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...
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Damn, I could've avoided hours of scrolling up by now if I knew about this before.
If I need the top lines I usually just pipe output to
less, butcolumnis definitely going to help a lot!There is also head and tail.
Yeah but I've always found I underestimate the amount of lines I needed to
head.tailI really only use with the-fflag to keep a tab on logs and the like.
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