Yes, there's other tools that can make terminal output prettier on Linux. We all know that. But the "column" command is likely already there, on your system, waiting for you to use it. With "column...
  • @caseyweederman@lemmy.ca
    2•1 day ago

    Yeah but I keep trying to pipe the output back into the original file which ends up empty due to how pipe and redirect interact.
    I know there must be a grown-up way to do it but I inevitably resort to writing it to filename2 and then running mv filename2 filename.