column: describe change of separator behavior in man page bugs section

Add to manual page how to achieve old behavior, just in case someone
relies on buggy behavior of the command.

[kzak@redhat.com: - remove unnecessary info from the man page :-)]

Reported-by:  Padraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>
Signed-off-by: Sami Kerola <kerolasa@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
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Sami Kerola 2012-09-29 10:21:59 +01:00 committed by Karel Zak
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@ -65,6 +65,26 @@ the screen if no other information is available.
.nf
sed 's/#.*//' /etc/fstab | column -t
.nf
.SH BUGS
The util-linux version 2.23 changed
.B \-s
option to be non-greedy, for example:
.PP
.EX
$ printf "a:b:c\n1::3\n" | column -t -s ':'
.EE
.PP
old output:
.EX
a b c
1 3
.EE
.PP
new output (since util-linux 2.23)
.EX
a b c
1 3
.EE
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR colrm (1),
.BR ls (1),