col1(1)                              byobu                             col1(1)

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.

byobu                             27 Sep 2010                          col1(1)