Re: cut: Changing order of output fields

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello,

On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 06:42:31AM +0200, Marco Schmidt wrote:
> 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).

this is not a bug, its a feature.

> Can this switching of fields be accomplished with one of the other
> core utilities?

cut -f1, cut -f6, and then paste together.
Or, more comfortably, use awk (gawk).  See the fine gawk manual (info gawk).

> 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)?

I doubt its worth it to add this extension, but I'm not the maintainer.
Wait for an official reply from him.

Regards,
        Stepan Kasal