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interactively select a column from (here: tab-)seperated value data by its title (expected to be in 1st line) and see its values; expects a (tsv) file path as 1st and only argument; requires percol https://github.com/mooz/percol
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selcol.sh
#!/bin/sh
head -1 $1 | \
tr "\t" "\n" | \
cat -n | \
percol | \
awk '{print $1}' | \
xargs -I c awk -v x=c 'BEGIN{FS="\t"}{print $x}' $1 | \
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