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 behavior 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 <kirkland@ubuntu.com> for Ubuntu systems (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under 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.