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                     37: .Dd June 6, 1993
                     38: .Dt COLRM 1
1.4       aaron      39: .Os
1.1       deraadt    40: .Sh NAME
                     41: .Nm colrm
                     42: .Nd remove columns from a file
                     43: .Sh SYNOPSIS
                     44: .Nm colrm
                     45: .Op Ar start Op Ar stop
                     46: .Sh DESCRIPTION
1.5     ! aaron      47: .Nm
1.1       deraadt    48: removes selected columns from the lines of a file.
                     49: A column is defined as a single character in a line.
                     50: Input is read from the standard input.
                     51: Output is written to the standard output.
                     52: .Pp
                     53: If only the
                     54: .Ar start
                     55: column is specified, columns numbered less than the
                     56: .Ar start
                     57: column will be written.
                     58: If both
                     59: .Ar start
                     60: and
                     61: .Ar stop
                     62: columns are specified, columns numbered less than the
                     63: .Ar start
                     64: column
                     65: or greater than the
                     66: .Ar stop
                     67: column will be written.
                     68: Column numbering starts with one, not zero.
                     69: .Pp
                     70: Tab characters increment the column count to the next multiple of eight.
                     71: Backspace characters decrement the column count by one.
                     72: .Sh SEE ALSO
                     73: .Xr awk 1 ,
                     74: .Xr column 1 ,
                     75: .Xr cut 1 ,
                     76: .Xr paste 1
                     77: .Sh HISTORY
                     78: The
1.5     ! aaron      79: .Nm
1.4       aaron      80: command appeared in
1.1       deraadt    81: .Bx 3.0 .