Example of column command in Linux

To display the information of the text file in form of columns:

column -s: -t -N Username,2,3,4,5,'Home directory',Shell -H2,3,4,5 /etc/passwd

Options:
-J : This option specifies the system to display the output in JSON format
-H : It is used to hide the specified columns from being displayed
-s : Defines the column delimiter for output
-O : Allows the user to define the order in which columns have to be displayed
-L : Inserts empty lines after each row
-t : Applied for creating a table by determining the number of columns
-R : Used to right-align text in a specific column
-T : Allows the system to truncate text wherever necessary so that the column width can be adjusted to ensure that the column doesn’t become too wide