sjmulder / align

Center or left/right-align text in the terminal.

align

align -C|c|R|r [-w width]

Copies a file from standard input to standard output, indented with spaces to be centered or right-align, depending on the chosen mode:

• -C: Center as a block
• -c: Center per line
• -R: Right-align as a block
• -r: Right-align per line

Tabs are expanded. The target width can be set with -w width and defaults to the COLUMNS environment variable, or 80 if unset.

Examples

Centering a file in block and per-line modes respectively:

$ align -C <poem.txt

       Into the machine
       The soul descended
       Speaking to its creator
       Greeting the world

$ align -c <poem.txt

          Into the machine
         The soul descended
       Speaking to its creator
         Greeting the world

Building

Should work on Unix (Linux, BSD, macOS, ...) or on Windows with minor changes:

$ make
$ sudo make install

Author

By Sijmen J. Mulder ([e-mail]), June 2020. See LICENSE.md.