COLRM(1) - General Commands Manual # COLRM(1) - General Commands Manual
NAME # colrm - remove columns from a file
SYNOPSIS # colrm [start [stop]]
DESCRIPTION # colrm removes selected columns from the lines of a file. Input is read from the standard input. Output is written to the standard output.
If only the start column is specified, columns numbered less than the start column will be written. If both start and stop columns are specified, columns numbered less than the start column or greater than the stop column will be written.
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COLUMN(1) - General Commands Manual # COLUMN(1) - General Commands Manual
NAME # column - columnate lists
SYNOPSIS # column [-tx] [-c columns] [-s sep] [file …]
DESCRIPTION # The column utility formats its input into multiple columns. Each input line provides the text for one output cell. Columns are filled before rows.
The column width is determined by the longest input line rounded up to the nearest tabstop; tabstops are assumed to be at multiples of eight.
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CUT(1) - General Commands Manual # CUT(1) - General Commands Manual
NAME # cut - select portions of each line of a file
SYNOPSIS # cut -b list [-n] [file …]
cut -c list [file …]
cut -f list [-s] [-d delim] [file …]
DESCRIPTION # The cut utility selects portions of each line (as specified by list) from each file and writes them to the standard output. If no file arguments are specified, or a file argument is a single dash (’-’), cut reads from the standard input.
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JOIN(1) - General Commands Manual # JOIN(1) - General Commands Manual
NAME # join - relational database operator
SYNOPSIS # join [-1 field] [-2 field] [-a file_number | -v file_number] [-e string] [-o list] [-t char] file1 file2
DESCRIPTION # The join utility performs an “equality join” on the specified files and writes the result to the standard output. The “join field” is the field in each file by which the files are compared.
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PASTE(1) - General Commands Manual # PASTE(1) - General Commands Manual
NAME # paste - merge corresponding or subsequent lines of files
SYNOPSIS # paste [-s] [-d list] file …
DESCRIPTION # The paste utility concatenates the corresponding lines of the given input files, replacing all but the last file’s newline characters with a single tab character, and writes the resulting lines to standard output. If end-of-file is reached on an input file while other input files still contain data, the file is treated as if it were an endless source of empty lines.
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