The column utility formats its input into multiple columns. Rows are filled before columns.
Input is taken from file operands, or, by de- fault, from the standard input.
Empty lines are ignored. Specify a set of characters to be used to delimit columns for the -t option. Determine the number of columns the input contains and create a table. Columns are delimited with whitespace, by default, or with the characters supplied using the -s option. Useful for pretty-printing displays.