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rows2cols
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rows2cols is a script for transposing rows to columns. It accepts both files and standard input, and allows custom separators.
For example, if you want to turn:
The
quick
brown
fox
jumped
over
the
dog
Into:
The quick brown fox
jumped over the dog
You could call:
rows2cols -c 4 -s ' ' file.txt
The default separator character is a space, and the default number of columns is four, so we could also call this as:
rows2cols file.txt
Output is printed to standard output, so rows2cols plays nicely with text processing pipelines.
Usage: rows2cols [options] [file, file...]
-c, --columns N Number of columns (default 4)
-s, --separator CHAR Separator character between columns (default space)
-h, --help Display this help
$ gem install rows2cols
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We found that rows2cols demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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