# pivot Pivots the table contents so rows become columns and columns become rows. ## Examples ```sh > ls docs ━━━┯━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┯━━━━━━━━━━━┯━━━━━━━━━━┯━━━━━━━━┯━━━━━━━━━━━━━┯━━━━━━━━━━━━━ # │ name │ type │ readonly │ size │ accessed │ modified ───┼────────────────────┼───────────┼──────────┼────────┼─────────────┼───────────── 0 │ docs/commands │ Directory │ │ 4.1 KB │ an hour ago │ an hour ago 1 │ docs/docker.md │ File │ │ 7.0 KB │ an hour ago │ a day ago 2 │ docs/philosophy.md │ File │ │ 896 B │ an hour ago │ a day ago ━━━┷━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┷━━━━━━━━━━━┷━━━━━━━━━━┷━━━━━━━━┷━━━━━━━━━━━━━┷━━━━━━━━━━━━━ > ls docs | pivot ━━━┯━━━━━━━━━━┯━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┯━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┯━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ # │ Column0 │ Column1 │ Column2 │ Column3 ───┼──────────┼───────────────┼────────────────┼──────────────────── 0 │ name │ docs/commands │ docs/docker.md │ docs/philosophy.md 1 │ type │ Directory │ File │ File 2 │ readonly │ │ │ 3 │ size │ 4.1 KB │ 7.0 KB │ 896 B 4 │ accessed │ an hour ago │ an hour ago │ an hour ago 5 │ modified │ an hour ago │ a day ago │ a day ago ━━━┷━━━━━━━━━━┷━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┷━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┷━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ``` Use `--header-row` to treat the first row as column names: ```shell > ls docs | pivot --header-row ━━━┯━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┯━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┯━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ # │ docs/commands │ docs/docker.md │ docs/philosophy.md ───┼───────────────┼────────────────┼──────────────────── 0 │ Directory │ File │ File 1 │ │ │ 2 │ 4.1 KB │ 7.0 KB │ 896 B 3 │ an hour ago │ an hour ago │ an hour ago 4 │ an hour ago │ a day ago │ a day ago ━━━┷━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┷━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┷━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ``` Use `--ignore-titles` to prevent pivoting the column names into values: ```shell > ls docs | pivot --ignore-titles ━━━┯━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┯━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┯━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ # │ Column0 │ Column1 │ Column2 ───┼───────────────┼────────────────┼──────────────────── 0 │ docs/commands │ docs/docker.md │ docs/philosophy.md 1 │ Directory │ File │ File 2 │ │ │ 3 │ 4.1 KB │ 7.0 KB │ 896 B 4 │ an hour ago │ an hour ago │ an hour ago 5 │ an hour ago │ a day ago │ a day ago ━━━┷━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┷━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┷━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ``` Additional arguments are used as column names: ```shell > ls docs | pivot foo bar baz ━━━┯━━━━━━━━━━┯━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┯━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┯━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ # │ foo │ bar │ baz │ Column3 ───┼──────────┼───────────────┼────────────────┼──────────────────── 0 │ name │ docs/commands │ docs/docker.md │ docs/philosophy.md 1 │ type │ Directory │ File │ File 2 │ readonly │ │ │ 3 │ size │ 4.1 KB │ 7.0 KB │ 896 B 4 │ accessed │ 2 hours ago │ 2 hours ago │ 2 hours ago 5 │ modified │ 2 hours ago │ a day ago │ a day ago ━━━┷━━━━━━━━━━┷━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┷━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┷━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ```