>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>  ALIGN  <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

		http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~kinzler/align

`Align` is a general-purpose text filter tool that helps vertically
align columns in string-separated tables of input text.  With
whitespace-separated columns, you can often use it without arguments and
it'll guess the right thing to do.  Otherwise, you can specify arguments
to direct how the columns are separated on input and rejoined in the
aligned output.  For example,

    $ head -5 access.log
    22.56.17.4 - 04/Dec/2000:04:08:53 GET /pub HTTP/1.0 408 - 23146
    hrl.com - 04/Dec/2000:07:17:32 GET /zen HTTP/1.0 404 272 27583
    gw.kpmg.ie - 04/Dec/2000:09:37:56 GET / HTTP/1.0 200 8135 658
    c1.aici.com - 04/Dec/2000:13:25:00 GET / HTTP/1.1 200 8135 8850
    dabs.com - 04/Dec/2000:15:04:29 GET / HTTP/1.1 408 - 12305

    $ head -5 access.log | align
    22.56.17.4  - 04/Dec/2000:04:08:53 GET /pub HTTP/1.0 408 -    23146
    hrl.com     - 04/Dec/2000:07:17:32 GET /zen HTTP/1.0 404 272  27583
    gw.kpmg.ie  - 04/Dec/2000:09:37:56 GET /    HTTP/1.0 200 8135   658
    c1.aici.com - 04/Dec/2000:13:25:00 GET /    HTTP/1.1 200 8135  8850
    dabs.com    - 04/Dec/2000:15:04:29 GET /    HTTP/1.1 408 -    12305

Here, `align` correctly guessed that columns were separated by a single
space character and generated an alignment using multiple spaces between
columns.  Also, the type of alignment within a column can be specified
to be "left", "right", "center", "numeric" or "zero-padded numeric".

Also included in this package is `width`, another general-purpose text
filter tool that helps you work with the printing width or length of
lines of input text.  For example, it can print the width, location
and/or content for its longest line or lines of input, or for all lines.
For example,

    % head -5 access.log | width -awnl
    63:1:22.56.17.4 - 04/Dec/2000:04:08:53 GET /pub HTTP/1.0 408 - 23146
    63:4:c1.aici.com - 04/Dec/2000:13:25:00 GET / HTTP/1.1 200 8135 8850

Running `align -h` and `width -h` will provide complete usage summaries.

----------------------------  INSTALLATION  ----------------------------

"align" and "width" are Perl scripts that you should be able to install
as-is, ie executable in a directory in your PATH.  Edit the first
line of the scripts, if necessary, to contain the proper path to your
perl executable.  Alternately, you can use the supplied Makefile to do
all this.  Just edit the top of the Makefile to your desires and then run:

	make
	make install

---------------------------  GPL COPYRIGHT  ----------------------------

align
Copyright (C) 2000-2001 Stephen B Kinzler
width
Copyright (C) 1993-2001 Stephen B Kinzler

These programs are free software; you can redistribute them and/or modify
them under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or any
later version.

These programs are distributed in the hope that they will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY
or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License
for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with these programs (see the file "COPYING"); if not, write to
the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
MA 02111-1307 USA

---------------------  SOFTWARE BY STEVE KINZLER  ----------------------

Unix Home Dir	http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~kinzler/home.html
		Many scripts and config files for Unix/X11 environments
align		http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~kinzler/align
		A text column alignment filter
vshnu		http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~kinzler/vshnu
		A visual shell and CLI shell supplement
webrowse	http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~kinzler/webrowse
		Tools to interface Netscape to the Unix user CLI
xtitle		http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~kinzler/xtitle
		Set window title and icon name for an X11 terminal window
z		http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~kinzler/z
		A convenience frontend for tar, gzip, zip, etc

========================================================================

Steve Kinzler <kinzler@cs.indiana.edu>			   December 2001
http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~kinzler
