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.