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NAME
col1 .. col9, NF - awk and print a column (based on the name of the
program, 1-9)
SYNOPSIS
col1 [SEPARATOR]
DESCRIPTION
col1 is a simple script that conveniently splits and prints a given
column, where the column to print is the name of the script program
you're running (col1-col9). col2-col9 are symlinks to col1; their be-
havior simply changes based on the name called.
NF can be used to print the last field.
The program takes one optional argument, the input field separator
(whitespace, by default).
EXAMPLES
Rather than:
mount | awk '{print $3}'
Try:
mount | col3
Instead of:
cat /etc/passwd | awk -F":" '{print $7}'
You can just do:
cat /etc/passwd | col7 :
Or
cat /etc/passwd | NF :
SEE ALSO
awk(1)
AUTHOR
This manpage and the utility was written by Dustin Kirkland <kirk-
land@ubuntu.com> for Ubuntu systems (but may be used by others). Per-
mission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document un-
der the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3 published by
the Free Software Foundation.
On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License
can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL, or on the web at
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt.
byobu 27 Sep 2010 col1(1)
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