table

The table format produces human-readable representations of gutenfmt output in a tabular form.

Example: name and value pairs to table

env | grep JAVA | gutenfmt --output table

Output:

JAVA_HOME /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64 
JAVA_OPTS -server -Xmx512m

Example: compact JSON to table

jq -c -M '.glossary.GlossDiv.GlossList.GlossEntry | del(.GlossDef)' \
  docs/data/glossary.json |
  gutenfmt --output table |
  sort

Output:

Abbrev    ISO 8879:1986
Acronym   SGML
GlossSee  markup
GlossTerm Standard Generalized Markup Language
ID        SGML
SortAs    SGML

Note the difference between table and tsv. table aligns the columns using multiple whitespaces, whereas tsv separates them with a single tab character ('\t').