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xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:
i cannot tell you how validating it was to discover that the official unix utitlity "column(1)" originally shipped backwards
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- Screenshot from the man page for column: "Historical versions of this tool indicated that "rows are filled before columns" by default, and that the -x option reverses this. This wording did not reflect the actual behavior, and it has since been corrected (see above). Other implementations of column may continue to use the older documentation, but the behavior should be identical in any case." (remote)
