Hello,
I'm missing a feature in cut(1) and wanted to know if i) one can change the
behaviour of the return fields or ii) add an additional parameter (let's
say -F) to GNU cut. The latter option would ensure that things don't get
broken, whereas the first option seems more intuitiv.
If it's ok to modify cut(1), I'd be glad to see a little modification the the
fields parameter (-f). In the current implementation it returns one ore more
fields in the way that these fields occur in the input line. However, it seems
more intuitiv that the fields get rearranged the way one passes the field
numbers:
echo "foo bar" | cut -d " " -f2,1
should create the output
bar foo
Do you accept patches for cut(1) and what way would you prefer?
cya
Benjamin
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