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arrange your text nicely with column

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August 17th, 2006 mysurface Posted in Text Manipulation, column, pipeline | Hits: 3742 |

Try to cat /etc/group, you will find the output text is showing name:x:id: …, which list of groups is separate by :

To separate it nicely by columns, you can do that:

cat /etc/group | column -t -s":"
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