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colrm – remove columns from a file
USAGE
colrm [startcol [endcol]]

DESCRIPTION
Colrm removes selected columns from a file. Input is taken from standard
input. Output is sent to standard output.

If called with one parameter the columns of [...]

gawk – pattern scanning and processing language
USAGE
gawk [ POSIX or GNU style options ] -f program-file [ -- ] file …
gawk [ POSIX or GNU style options ] [ -- ] program-text file …

pgawk [...]

a2p – Awk to Perl translator
USAGE
a2p [options] filename

DESCRIPTION
A2p takes an awk script specified on the command line (or from standard
input) and produces a comparable perl script on the standard output.

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