Pretty printing columns in Bash
Nice and simple:The command produces following output
$ ls -al | awk '{print $9" "$1" " $3}' | column -t
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.winpdb_settings.cfg Nov 7 -rw-r--r--
work Jan 10 lrwxr-xr-x
WWW May 3 lrwxr-xr-x
.Xauthority Apr 11 -rw-------
.xdvirc Jul 25 lrwxr-xr-x
.xine Aug 25 lrwxr-xr-x
.xscreensaver-getimage.cache Feb 10 lrwxr-xr-x
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