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		bee_rider on March 26, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A love letter to the CSV format There is at least a chance that the text fields will fit in a tab. If not, a tool like “column” on Linux can be used. There is no chance that a text field will fit inside the width of a comma.

ciupicri on March 26, 2025 [–]

I was about to mention that column [1] is part of util-linux, so perhaps it's Linux specific, but then I noticed this in the FreeBSD man page [2]:

> The column command appeared in 4.3BSD-Reno.

[1]: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/column.1.html

[2]: https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=column&sektion=1

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