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.TH COLEX 1 "March 5, 1985" "UNIX|STAT 5.0" "UNIX User's Manual""
.SH NAME
colex \- column/field extraction
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B colex
[-fqi]
column numbers
.SH DESCRIPTION
.I Colex
extracts the named columns from the standard input
and prints them with tabs between.
Column number begin with 1.
Ranges of column numbers can be abbreviated with arguments
of the form #-# (e.g., 12-24).
Column ranges can be in reverse order
(e.g., 5-1 to reverse the first five columns).
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B -f
Force filling of missing columns
with the string "?colex?".
.TP
.B -q
Place quotes around the printed strings.
.TP
.B -i
Ignore missing columns.
Otherwise, a missing column,
not filled by the -f option,
is an error.
Combined with the -q option,
this causes blank fields (doubled quotes) to be printed.
.SH LIMITATIONS
The number of columns is limited to 100.
.SH SEE\ ALSO
unixstat(1), dm(1), abut(1)
.SH AUTHOR
Gary Perlman
.SH BUGS
.I Colex
duplicates some functionality in
.I dm
but is included for systems that cannot compile
.I dm.
.SH KEYWORDS
statistics, data analysis, data manipulation