# col5(1) - man - phpMan

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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  sym‐
       links 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)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/awk/1/markdown)


## 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_>.



byobu                                        27 Sep 2010                                     [col1(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/col1/1/markdown)