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How to align columns in output from a UNIX command?

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Mar 15, 202624095 views
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Problem

I used to know of a command -- an actual command mind you, not sed/awk magic -- that formatted its input to be aligned in columns. For example, if you ran: But if you ran the output through the command which I've forgotten the name of: Does anyone know the name of that command?

Error Output

% echo -e "aaaaa bbbbbbb\ncc ddd"
aaaaa bbbbbbb
cc ddd

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