On Sat, 15 Dec 2007, G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote: > On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 05:52:25AM -0500, William Case wrote: > > Hi; > > > > I am having a bit of a brain cramp. > > > > I have a text file with 1100 one word lines in it. I would like to > > transpose that file into a three column text file reducing it from 23 > > pages to 8 pages before printing. I did something similar from the > > command line over a year ago, but for the life of me I can't remember > > how. I do remember that it was simple at the time. > > > > I have tried every possible combination I can think of with grep | > > column. > > > > If this problem is familiar to someone could they just point me; tickle > > my memory? > > There are some options to the pr(1) command that will multi-column on the way to > printing. $ pr --columns=3 -t <file> i think. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca ========================================================================
