I like this but i can't decide if it's technically abuse or not. The paste command will happily parse - (meaning read from stdin) multiple times, so for transpo

I like this but i can't decide if it's technically abuse or not. The paste command will happily parse - (meaning read from stdin) multiple times, so for transposing a list into a table: file.txt: line1 line2 line3 line4 line5 line6 $ paste - - - < file.txt line1 line2 line3 line4 line5 line6 Combine with the column command for pretty printing. I seem to find a use for this pretty frequently. I like the simplicity of this one but it's not very useful day to day: $ echo * As a replacement for "ls".