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PT-ALIGN(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation PT-ALIGN(1)

pt-align - Align output from other tools to columns.

Usage: pt-align [FILES]

pt-align aligns output from other tools to columns. If no FILES are specified, STDIN is read.

If a tool prints the following output,

   DATABASE TABLE   ROWS
   foo      bar      100
   long_db_name table  1
   another  long_name 500

then pt-align reprints the output as,

   DATABASE     TABLE     ROWS
   foo          bar        100
   long_db_name table        1
   another      long_name  500

Percona Toolkit is mature, proven in the real world, and well tested, but all database tools can pose a risk to the system and the database server. Before using this tool, please:
  • Read the tool's documentation
  • Review the tool's known "BUGS"
  • Test the tool on a non-production server
  • Backup your production server and verify the backups

pt-align reads lines and splits them into words. It counts how many words each line has, and if there is one number that predominates, it assumes this is the number of words in each line. Then it discards all lines that don't have that many words, and looks at the 2nd line that does. It assumes this is the first non-header line. Based on whether each word looks numeric or not, it decides on column alignment. Finally, it goes through and decides how wide each column should be, and then prints them out.

This is useful for things like aligning the output of vmstat or iostat so it is easier to read.

This tool accepts additional command-line arguments. Refer to the "SYNOPSIS" and usage information for details.
--help
Show help and exit.
--version
Show version and exit.

This tool does not use any environment variables.

You need Perl, and some core packages that ought to be installed in any reasonably new version of Perl.

For a list of known bugs, see <http://www.percona.com/bugs/pt-align>.

Please report bugs at <https://jira.percona.com/projects/PT>. Include the following information in your bug report:

  • Complete command-line used to run the tool
  • Tool "--version"
  • MySQL version of all servers involved
  • Output from the tool including STDERR
  • Input files (log/dump/config files, etc.)

If possible, include debugging output by running the tool with "PTDEBUG"; see "ENVIRONMENT".

Visit <http://www.percona.com/software/percona-toolkit/> to download the latest release of Percona Toolkit. Or, get the latest release from the command line:

   wget percona.com/get/percona-toolkit.tar.gz

   wget percona.com/get/percona-toolkit.rpm

   wget percona.com/get/percona-toolkit.deb

You can also get individual tools from the latest release:

   wget percona.com/get/TOOL

Replace "TOOL" with the name of any tool.

Baron Schwartz, Brian Fraser, and Daniel Nichter

This tool is part of Percona Toolkit, a collection of advanced command-line tools for MySQL developed by Percona. Percona Toolkit was forked from two projects in June, 2011: Maatkit and Aspersa. Those projects were created by Baron Schwartz and primarily developed by him and Daniel Nichter. Visit <http://www.percona.com/software/> to learn about other free, open-source software from Percona.

This program is copyright 2011-2018 Percona LLC and/or its affiliates, 2010-2011 Baron Schwartz.

THIS PROGRAM IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, version 2; OR the Perl Artistic License. On UNIX and similar systems, you can issue `man perlgpl' or `man perlartistic' to read these licenses.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA.

pt-align 3.3.1
2021-04-23 perl v5.32.1

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