AutoGen: 8.4.1 columns usage help (-?)

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### 8.4.1 columns usage help (-?)

This is the automatically generated usage text for columns:

    columns - Columnize Input Text - Ver. 1.1
    USAGE:  columns [ -<flag> [<val>] | --<name>[{=| }<val>] ]...
      Flg Arg Option-Name    Description
       -W Num width          Maximum Line Width
       -c Num columns        Desired number of columns
       -w Num col-width      Set width of each column
          Num spread         maximum spread added to column width
       -I Str indent         Line prefix or indentation
          Str first-indent   First line prefix
                                    - requires these options:
                                    indent
          Num tab-width      tab width
       -s opt sort           Sort input text
       -f Str format         Formatting string for each input
       -S Str separation     Separation string - follows all but last
          Str line-separation string at end of all lines but last
          no  by-columns     Print entries in column order
       -i Str input          Input file (if not stdin)
       -v opt version        Output version information and exit
       -? no  help           Display usage information and exit
       -! no  more-help      Extended usage information passed thru pager

    Options are specified by doubled hyphens and their name
    or by a single hyphen and the flag character.

    This program was designed for the purpose of generating compact,
    columnized tables.  It will read a list of text items from standard
    in or a specified input file and produce a columnized listing of
    all the non-blank lines.  Leading white space on each line is
    preserved, but trailing white space is stripped.  Methods of
    applying per-entry and per-line embellishments are provided.
    See the formatting and separation arguments below.

    This program is used by AutoGen to help clean up and organize
    its output.

    please send bug reports to:  autogen-users@lists.sf.net

This document was generated by Bruce Korb on October, 8 2005 using texi2html 1.76.