PRINT-COLUMNS(1)

💅 print-columns — NCBI Entrez Direct User's Manual 💅

okay bestie, gather round, because this little icon of a tool from the NCBI Entrez Direct manual is about to become your new hyperfixation 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

print-columns — the way it transforms lines of a tab-delimited table, no cap 💖

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

print-columns expr[,expr...]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the vibe: print-columns reads a tab-delimited table from standard input, and then it writes to standard output the result of evaluating the awk(1) expression(s) you gave it — on each row, one by one. literally every row gets the glow-up ✨

it's giving "main character energy" for your table. it's giving "ate and left no crumbs". periodt. 👑

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🎀 NOTE 🎀

ngl, this part matters, so listen up: callers will typically want to surround the expressions by single quotes to protect them from shell expansion 💀

don't skip that step, bestie. your shell is nosy and will absolutely try to touch your expressions if you let it 🙈

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• awk(1)
• filter-columns(1)
• just-top-hits(1)
• reorder-columns(1)
• sort-table(1)
• transmute(1)
• uniq-table(1)
• xinfo(1)
• xtract(1)

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and that's the whole page, bestie — that's a wrap 🎀

this cutie came to you courtesy of NCBI, dated 2025-05-26, from the NCBI Entrez Direct User's Manual. obsessed with her, honestly 💖✨🌈