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# Format And Display Small Amounts Of Columnar Data
In [_List Processes Running Across All (tmux)
Sessions](tmux/list-processes-running-across-all-sessions.md), I showed an
example of piping some data from `tmux` to the `column -t` command to nicely format
and display the columnar data as a table. By default is uses spaces as the
delimiter.
```bash
❯ tmux list-panes -a -F "#{session_name}:#{window_index}.#{pane_index} #{pane_pid} #{pane_current_command}" \
| column -t
PLP:1.1 62364 zsh
TIL:1.1 62345 nvim
TIL:1.2 65838 task
TIL:2.1 11428 tmux
client-app:1.1 62373 ssh
client-app:1.2 10796 zsh
client-app:1.3 63081 zsh
client-app:2.1 61115 overmind
client-app:3.1 82608 zsh
visualmode-dev:1.1 52237 zsh
```
This can be useful for formatting data from all kinds of commands and tools.
Sometimes the columns of data are separated by something other than spaces. For
instance, here is some git branch information (for my [dotfiles
repo](https://github.com/jbranchaud/dotfiles)) separated by the `|` character.
To format that with `column`, I need to also include the `-s '|'` flag to
override the delimiter.
```bash
❯ git for-each-ref --format='%(refname:short)|%(authordate:short)|%(authorname)' refs/heads/ \
| column -t -s '|'
claude/sync-dotfiles-011CUP87cRV6c51eEi3Chg99 2025-10-22 jbranchaud
jb/add-rhubarb-for-fugitive-github-browse 2025-11-02 jbranchaud
jb/fix-hardcoded-paths 2025-11-02 jbranchaud
jb/set-nvim-to-default-manpager 2025-10-19 jbranchaud
main 2026-01-10 jbranchaud
master 2025-10-30 Dorian Karter
my-dotfiles 2025-11-01 jbranchaud
upstream-master 2026-01-01 Dorian Karter
```