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Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 23:10:27 +0200
From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To: George Barnett <george@alink.co.za>
Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: aaaarrrrggghhh - I can't remember and it's killling me..
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On 2002-12-13 16:11, George Barnett <george@alink.co.za> wrote:
> There's a shell command which takes a block of text and outputs it into n
> columns...
>
> eg:
>
> blah blah blah
> blah blah blah
> blah blah blah
> blah blah blah
> blah blah blah
>
> becomes:
>
> blah blah blah    blah blah blah
> blah blah blah    blah blah blah
> blah blah blah    blah blah blah

Perhaps rs(1) is what you want?

keramida@gothmog[23:10]/home/keramida$ man -k rs | grep '^rs('
rs(1)                    - reshape a data array

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