8.4.1 columns usage help (-?)

This is the automatically generated usage text for columns:

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columns - Columnize Input Text - Ver. 1.1 USAGE: columns [ -<flag> [<val>] | --<name>[{=| }<val>] ]... Flg Arg Option-Name Description -W Num width Maximum Line Width -c Num columns Desired number of columns -w Num col-width Set width of each column Num spread maximum spread added to column width -I YES indent Line prefix or indentation YES first-indent First line prefix - requires these options: indent Num tab-width tab width -s opt sort Sort input text -f YES format Formatting string for each input -S YES separation Separation string - follows all but last YES line-separation string at end of all lines but last no by-columns Print entries in column order -i YES input Input file (if not stdin) -v opt version Output version information and exit -? no help Display usage information and exit -! no more-help Extended usage information passed thru pager Options may be specified by doubled hyphens and their name or by a single hyphen and the flag character (option value). This program was designed for the purpose of generating compact, columnized tables. It will read a list of text items from standard in or a specified input file and produce a columnized listing of all the non-blank lines. Leading white space on each line is preserved, but trailing white space is stripped. Methods of applying per-entry and per-line embellishments are provided. See the formatting and separation arguments below. This program is used by AutoGen to help clean up and organize its output.

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