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: / bin /
Filename : col4
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#!/bin/sh -e
#
#    col1..col9 - handy hack to print a column from standard in
#
#    Copyright (C) 2010 Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@ubuntu.com>
#
#    Authors:
#        Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@ubuntu.com>
#
#    This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
#    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
#    the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License.
#
#    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
#    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
#    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
#    GNU General Public License for more details.
#
#    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
#    along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

if [ $# -gt 0 ]; then
    ifs='-F'"$1"
    shift || true
else
    ifs="-F "
fi
b=$(basename $0)
awk "$ifs" '{print $'${b#col}'}' "$@"