col1(1)

✨ col1(1) — the byobu manual, but make it iconic 🎀

💖 NAME

okay bestie, so col1 .. col9, NF is the vibe 🦋 awk and print a column, and the name of the program decides which column you get (1-9) 💅

🫶 SYNOPSIS

col1 [SEPARATOR]

🌸 DESCRIPTION

okay so col1 is a simple script that literally splits your input and prints one column for you, and WHICH column is decided by the name you run it under (col1 through col9) 🔥 col2 through col9 are symlinks to col1, and they just change what they do based on the name they were called by. it's giving clever symlink energy 💜

NF can be used to print the last field ✨

the program takes one optional argument, the input field separator. by default it's whitespace, so no drama 🧚

🍓 EXAMPLES

rather than doing this:

mount | awk '{print $3}'

just try this instead 💅

mount | col3

instead of this:

cat /etc/passwd | awk -F":" '{print $7}'

you can just do this 😭

cat /etc/passwd | col7 :

or, lowkey iconic:

cat /etc/passwd | NF :

👑 SEE ALSO

awk(1) — the OG, obsessed with it 💀

🌈 AUTHOR

this manpage and the utility were written by Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@ubuntu.com> for Ubuntu systems (but anyone can use it, periodt 🫶). 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 📜

bestie, this page is from byobu, dated 27 Sep 2010, source version byobu. that's the whole tea, love you 💖🦋✨