On Sun, 8 Feb 2015, Craig Sanders wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 07, 2015 at 07:05:09PM +1100, Tim Connors wrote:
> > Too many output lines in a machine status health display.  Added a
> > bunch more webservers yesterday that I want to be able to see!
>
> i think you'll have to modify your status display program to support
> multi-column or perhaps tabulated output. as i mentioned before, you
> can do that with curses. or if you don't want any of that fancy text
> windowing crap, you could write a filter that takes your output as input
> and prints it as two columns (perhaps as simple as reading the input
> into a buffer and then printing it with "row[n] row[n+90]" joined on the
> same line).
>
> hmmm. you may be able to do something with groff. or pr, maybe with
> something like '... | pr --columns=2 -a -l90 -t'

Heh, I like it.

-- 
Tim Connors
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