Bash --- columns problem ??

[G.Wolfe Woodbury]

On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 05:52:25AM -0500, William Case wrote:
> Hi;
> 
> I am having a bit of a brain cramp.
> 
> I have a text file with 1100 one word lines in it.  I would like to
> transpose that file into a three column text file reducing it from 23
> pages to 8 pages before printing.  I did something similar from the
> command line over a year ago, but for the life of me I can't remember
> how.  I do remember that it was simple at the time.
> 
> I have tried every possible combination I can think of with grep |
> column.
> 
> If this problem is familiar to someone could they just point me; tickle
> my memory?

There are some options to the pr(1) command that will multi-column on the way to
printing.

-- 
Wolfe