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.