1 Overview

Tabfmt is a command line utility to format tabular data. The program reads lines from one or more files or from standard input, breaks the lines into fields given a set of input field delimiters, and prints a table with constant-width columns to standard output or a specified file.

Minimum and maximum field widths, left and right padding, as well as the characters used for filling, padding and delimiting the fields can be specified.

This program is meant to integrate well with the standard UNIX utilities for text manipulation. It is specialised in a simple, everyday task which is usually too bothersome to implement in shell scripting.