A command-line utility that reads lines from stdin and aligns them by a common column.

By default, alignment happens at the first non-whitespace character boundary (after discarding leading whitespace). You can also pass an explicit separator string as an argument.

align [separator]

Align by a specified separator =

$ cat config.txt
foo = 1
bar_baz = 2
x = 3

$ cat config.txt | align =
foo     = 1
bar_baz = 2
x       = 3

Default alignment (first word boundary)

$ cat list.txt | align
short       value
much_longer value
x           value

make install

make build