VNL-ALIGN(1)

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version 1.42 · 5 versions
, in ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 VNL-ALIGN(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the vnlog corner of the manual-verse — this one's vnl-align, and it's genuinely one of the most satisfying little tools ever. no cap.

✨ NAME ✨

vnl-align — aligns vnlog columns for easy interpretation by humans 🫶

(it's giving "make my data actually readable to my eyeballs" energy and we're obsessed)

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

 $ cat tst.vnl

 # w x y z
 -10 40 asdf -
 -20 50 - 0.300000
 -30 10 whoa 0.500000

 $ vnl-align tst.vnl

 # w  x   y      z
 -10 40 asdf -
 -20 50 -    0.300000
 -30 10 whoa 0.500000

look at that glow-up 😭💅 same data, but now it's legible.

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so the basic usage is literally just:

 vnl-align logfile

the arguments are assumed to be the vnlog files ✨ and if you give it no arguments at all, the input comes from STDIN. classic.

now, bestie, this is very similar to column -t — like, same vibe, same family — BUT it handles # lines properly, and that's the whole point:

  1. The first # line is the legend. For the purposes of alignment, the leading # character and the first column label are treated as one column. 🎀
  2. All other # lines are output verbatim.
ngl, that first rule is the sneaky little detail that makes the whole thing work. column -t could never. 💀

🔥 REPOSITORY 🔥

https://github.com/dkogan/vnlog/

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Dima Kogan <dima@secretsauce.net> 💜

Copyright 2016 California Institute of Technology. Copyright 2018 Dima Kogan <dima@secretsauce.net>

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

fr fr, that "or any later version" part is doing main character energy ✨

and that's the whole page, bestie 💖 this one's from the vnlog manual set, version dated 2026-01-26 — go forth and align ur columns, u icon 🧚‍♀️🌸

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