cut: Changing order of output fields

[Marco Schmidt]

I'm using GNU cut 2.0 and I'd like to change the order of fields in
output. Simply using "cut -f6,1" to get the sixth input column
followed by the first input column doesn't work (I don't know if this
is a bug or feature, I chose this newsgroup anyway).

Can this switching of fields be accomplished with one of the other
core utilities? Is changing the order of fields in output as specified
after -f an option that could be added to cut (if the maintainers read
this group)?

Regards,
Marco