> Really The Right Thing would be a flag to df that made it
> automatically compact the column widths, but that would be real work.

Why should it be a flag to df?  In the Unix way of "one function, one
tool", shouldn't it be a separate tool which does column alignment and
compaction?

I just happen to have written one.  It might even be usable for this
without further hackery, though I'm not sure.  See
ftp.rodents.montreal.qc.ca:/mouse/local/src/halign/....

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