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    To work this problem on a local system, you must ensure your input file contains tabs between fields. I pasted the text from a browser and then replaced repeated spaces with tabs using this:

    sed -i -E 's/\s{2,}/\t/g' /tmp/pasted-data.tsv
    

    A nice way to confirm that you succeeded, display the columns of text by tab delimiter and expect it to look like a pretty table:

    column -ts$'\t' /tmp/pasted-data.tsv