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Manpages for the command "column" show:

column [-tx] [-c columns] [-s sep] [file ...]

 -s      Specify a set of characters to be used to delimit
         columns for the -t option.

I could not find out howto use parameter "-s". Can anybody give a syntax example with "-s"?

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$ column -t -s'*' <<< 'a*b*c'
a  b  c
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