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Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:00:20 -0500
From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
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In the last episode (Oct 20), Tom Worster said:
> is there a cli command that lays out tsv files for display with a fixed
> width font?
> 
> that is, it figures how wide each column needs to be and pads each field
> in the file with a suitable about of space?

The "rs" command should do what you want, if you can figure out the correct
commandline options.  It's not easy, though...

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