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UCW-TABLEPRINTER(5)
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NAME
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----
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ucw-tableprinter - a program module for customizable printing of tables.
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DESCRIPTION
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The table printer module is a part of the LibUCW library. It provides formatting
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of 2-dimensional tables in various ways. Users seldom interact with the table
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printer itself, but programs using it often provide means for customizing table
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output by passing options.
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This manual page describes the overall logic of the table printer and its
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options.
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Each table print-out consists of a number of rows, which are processed
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one after another. All rows have the same number of columns. Once a
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table is defined, it can be printed using a variety of formatters
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(block-line, human-readable, machine-readable, etc.).
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The table definition consists of various column definitions, each
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column definition is a pair consisting of a name and a type. Name of
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each column must be unique in the whole table. Each column definition
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can be instantiated (printed) in its own format, e.g., a size column
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can be printed three times: first in bytes, then in gigabytes, and
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finally in a human-readable form.
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The table can be controlled using various options:
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[options="header"]
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| option | argument | meaning
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| `header` | 0 or 1 | set whether a table header should be printed
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| `noheader` | 'none' | equivalent to `header:0`
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| `cols` | comma-separated column list | set order of columns and per-column options (see below)
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| `fmt` | `human`/`machine`/`block` | set table formatter to one of the built-in formatters (see below)
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| `col-delim` | string | set column delimiter
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| `cells` | string | set column cell format mode, possibilities are: `default`, `raw`, `pretty`
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| `raw` | 'none' | set column cell format to raw data, equivalent to `cells:raw`
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| `pretty` | 'none' | set column cell format to pretty-printing, equivalent to `cells:pretty`
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|===============================================================================================================
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Table formats
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The `fmt` option sets the overall format of the table. Currently,
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the following formats are available:
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* 'human-readable' (`human`): prints columns separated by a single space, rows
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separated by a newline character (ASCII 0x0a).
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* 'machine-readable' (`machine`): prints columns separated by a tab character (ASCII 0x09),
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rows separated by a newline character.
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* 'block-line' (`block`): prints each column on one line, rows separated by a single
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blank line. That is, the column separator is set to the newline character
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and an extra newline is printed at the end of each row.
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Column definitions
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------------------
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The `cols` option allows to specify a list of table columns and their options.
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For instance, you can use `name,size[raw],size[pretty]` to request a table with three columns:
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name, size as a raw value, and the same size pretty-printed.
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Formally, the argument of the `cols` option follows this grammar:
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<col-order-string> := <col-def>[,<col-def>]*
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<col-def> := <col-name> [ '[' <col-opts> ']' ]
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<col-name> contains no commas nor square brackets
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<col-opts> := <col-opt> [ ',' <col-opt> ]
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<col-opt> contains no commas nor square brackets
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Column options
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All column types accept these standard formatting modes:
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* `default`: human-readable, but not hostile to machine parsing
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* `raw`: raw data with no frills
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* `pretty`: tries to please humans (e.g., like `ls -h`)
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There are also formatting modes specific for particular column types:
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* Sizes can be given a unit (`KB`, `MB`, `GB`, `TB`, or `auto`; case-insensitive).
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* Timestamps can be formatted as `timestamp` or `epoch` (both are seconds since the
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Unix epoch), or `datetime` (corresponds to date(1) format `"%F %T"`. Currently,
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`raw` is an alias for `timestamp` and `pretty` is the same as `datetime`.
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