For at se indholdet i en fil som har flere kolonner kan du bruge column kommandoen som vist her.
-t for kolonne og -s som adskiller her ‘:’ kolon tegnet.
$ cat /etc/passwd | column -t -s : root x 0 0 root /root /bin/bash daemon x 1 1 daemon /usr/sbin /usr/sbin/nologin bin x 2 2 bin /bin /usr/sbin/nologin sys x 3 3 sys /dev /usr/sbin/nologin sync x 4 65534 sync /bin /bin/sync games x 5 60 games /usr/games /usr/sbin/nologin man x 6 12 man /var/cache/man /usr/sbin/nologin lp x 7 7 lp /var/spool/lpd /usr/sbin/nologin mail x 8 8 mail /var/mail /usr/sbin/nologin news x 9 9 news /var/spool/news /usr/sbin/nologin uucp x 10 10 uucp /var/spool/uucp /usr/sbin/nologin proxy x 13 13 proxy /bin /usr/sbin/nologin www-data x 33 33 www-data /var/www /usr/sbin/nologin backup x 34 34 backup /var/backups /usr/sbin/nologin list x 38 38 Mailing List Manager /var/list /usr/sbin/nologin irc x 39 39 ircd /var/run/ircd /usr/sbin/nologin gnats x 41 41 Gnats Bug-Reporting System (admin) /var/lib/gnats /usr/sbin/nologin nobody x 65534 65534 nobody /nonexistent /usr/sbin/nologin systemd-network x 100 102 systemd Network Management,,, /run/systemd/netif /usr/sbin/nologin systemd-resolve x 101 103 systemd Resolver,,, /run/systemd/resolve /usr/sbin/nologin syslog x 102 106 /home/syslog /usr/sbin/nologin messagebus x 103 107 /nonexistent /usr/sbin/nologin _apt x 104 65534 /nonexistent /usr/sbin/nologin uuidd x 105 111 /run/uuidd /usr/sbin/nologin avahi-autoipd x 106 112 Avahi autoip daemon,,, /var/lib/avahi-autoipd /usr/sbin/nologin usbmux x 107 46 usbmux daemon,,, /var/lib/usbmux /usr/sbin/nologin dnsmasq x 108 65534 dnsmasq,,, /var/lib/misc /usr/sbin/nologin rtkit x 109 114 RealtimeKit,,, /proc /usr/sbin/nologin cups-pk-helper x 110 116 user for cups-pk-helper service,,, /home/cups-pk-helper /usr/sbin/nologin speech-dispatcher x 111 29 Speech Dispatcher,,, /var/run/speech-dispatcher /bin/false whoopsie x 112 117 /nonexistent /bin/false kernoops x 113 65534 Kernel Oops Tracking Daemon,,, / /usr/sbin/nologin saned x 114 119 /var/lib/saned /usr/sbin/nologin pulse x 115 120 PulseAudio daemon,,, /var/run/pulse /usr/sbin/nologin avahi x 116 122 Avahi mDNS daemon,,, /var/run/avahi-daemon /usr/sbin/nologin colord x 117 123 colord colour management daemon,,, /var/lib/colord /usr/sbin/nologin hplip x 118 7 HPLIP system user,,, /var/run/hplip /bin/false geoclue x 119 124 /var/lib/geoclue /usr/sbin/nologin gnome-initial-setup x 120 65534 /run/gnome-initial-setup/ /bin/false gdm x 121 125 Gnome Display Manager /var/lib/gdm3 /bin/false statd x 122 65534 /var/lib/nfs /usr/sbin/nologin libvirt-qemu x 64055 129 Libvirt Qemu,,, /var/lib/libvirt /usr/sbin/nologin libvirt-dnsmasq x 125 132 Libvirt Dnsmasq,,, /var/lib/libvirt/dnsmasq /usr/sbin/nologin nvidia-persistenced x 126 134 NVIDIA Persistence Daemon,,, /nonexistent /sbin/nologin _flatpak x 127 136 Flatpak system-wide installation helper,,, /nonexistent /usr/sbin/nologin