From 0abe6c2d8109b1c1f590ee5dd2f340d59cbdd240 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: classabbyamp <void@placeviolette.net>
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2022 19:31:45 -0400
Subject: xlocate: handle lack of column(1) gracefully

---
 xlocate | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'xlocate')

diff --git a/xlocate b/xlocate
index 90ba621..e58fee8 100755
--- a/xlocate
+++ b/xlocate
@@ -27,6 +27,12 @@ else
 	PROGRESS=cat
 fi
 
+if command -v column >/dev/null; then
+	COLUMN="column -ts: -l2"
+else
+	COLUMN='sed s/:/\t/'
+fi
+
 xupdategit() {
 	set -e
 	DIR=$(mktemp -dt xlocate.XXXXXX)
@@ -88,7 +94,7 @@ if [ -d "$XLOCATE_GIT" ]; then
 		fi
 	fi
 	$GIT_CMD -c grep.lineNumber=false -c grep.column=false --git-dir="$XLOCATE_GIT" grep -- "$@" @ |
-		sed 's/^@://' | column -ts: -l2 | grep .
+		sed 's/^@://' | $COLUMN | grep .
 else
 	echo "xlocate: database not found, please use xlocate -S." 1>&2
 	exit 1
-- 
cgit 1.4.1