How can I align the columns of tables in Bash?

Question

I\'d like to output a table format text. What I tried to do was echo the elements of an array with \'\\t\', but it was misaligned.

My code

for((i=0;i         


        

Answer 1

It's easier than you wonder.

If you are working with a separated by semicolon file and header too:

$ (head -n1 file.csv && sort file.csv | grep -v 
) | column -s";" -t

If you are working with array (using tab as separator):

for((i=0;i> tmp_file.csv

done;

cat file.csv | column -t