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Re: Thoughts on cut
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Eric Blake |
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Re: Thoughts on cut |
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Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:22:11 -0600 |
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According to Marc Perkel on 4/10/2008 12:23 PM:
| I'm not sure if this feature request would be disruptive or not but it
| would be handy.
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| If I run cut -f 2,1 it would be nice if it put the fields out in the
| order specified. Put field 2 out, then field 1.
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| Thoughts?
Sorry, but POSIX requires the current behavior of cut. Besides, it is
easy to use awk to do this sort of work.
$ awk '{ print $2, $1 }'
- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake address@hidden
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- Thoughts on cut, Marc Perkel, 2008/04/10
- Re: Thoughts on cut,
Eric Blake <=