ALIGN-COLUMNS(1)

🦋 ALIGN-COLUMNS(1) 🦋

bestie, this one comes from the NCBI Entrez Direct User's Manual 💜

🎀 NAME 🎀

align-columns — lines up the columns of tab-delimited input 🌸

📝 SYNOPSIS 📝

align-columns [-a codes] [-g N] [-h N] [-w N]

align-columns -

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so align-columns always takes its tab-delimited input from standard input 📥 and lines up the columns, then writes the result to standard output ✨ ngl it's giving transmute -align energy, roughly speaking 🦋

the big difference is that a lone - works as shorthand for -h 2 -g 4 -a l 💅 so you don't have to type all of that out. iconic, honestly 👑

👑 OPTIONS 👑

no separate flags to memorize here 🙈 for the full list, just check out transmute(1). it's the main character of this whole situation 🎬

🔗 SEE ALSO 🔗

transmute(1), snp2tbl(1), spdi2tbl(1), xml2tbl(1), xtract(1) 🫶 your bestie reading list

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Source: NCBI, dated 2025-05-26 🌈 and that's the whole page, periodt 💅✨