Sometimes, I'm getting as an input tab separated list, which is not quite aligned, for instance
var1 var2 var3
var_with_long_name_which_ruins_alignment var2 var3
Is there an easy way to render them aligned?
var1 var2 var3
var_with_long_name_which_ruins_alignment var2 var3
Best Answer
So, the answer becomes:
Note that this splits columns at any whitespace, not just tabs. If you want to split on tabs only, use:
The
-s $'\t'
sets the delimiter to tabs only and-n
preserves empty columns (adjacent tabs).P.S.: Just want to point out that the credit goes to Alex as well. The original hint was provided by him as a comment to the question, but was never posted as an answer.