Installer align avec Homebrew, Nix

Liens du projet

• Page d'accueil

Commandes et alias

• width

Historique du projet

The official page dates align to the 2000-2001 copyright period and the bundled width tool to 1993-2001. The page itself is dated December 2001 and advertises align 1.7.5 as a downloadable tarball rather than a public source-control repository.

The implementation is presented as installable Perl scripts: users can put align and width directly on PATH or use the supplied Makefile.

Historique d'adoption

The input package-manager facts show align remains packaged by Homebrew and Nix, but the official project page does not document wider adoption beyond its Unix filter audience.

Modes d'utilisation

Typical use is in pipelines over logs or tables. With whitespace-separated columns, align can infer separators and print aligned output; options can control input separators, output joiners, and left, right, center, numeric, or zero-padded numeric alignment. The companion width utility reports line widths and longest lines.

Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

align is the kind of small, durable command-line filter package managers preserve because it composes with pipes and solves a narrow formatting job without a larger table-processing dependency.

Chronologie

• 1993: width companion utility copyright period begins.
• 2000-2001: align copyright period.
• 2001: Official page dated December 2001 advertises align 1.7.5.

Related projects

• width: bundled companion utility for measuring printable line width.

Sources

• Official align homepage: https://kinzler.com/me/align
• source_facts.package-manager