On Fri, 17 Jun 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >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.
The spec mandates that the selected fields be returned in order: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/cut.html Note in the "rationale" section the proposal to add "-o" as as argument to indicate that list order should be preserved. Whether or not GNU cut should use the exact argument "-o", I think it would be a useful feature. I can't speak for the coreutils maintainer, but patches are usually welcome, especially if supplied with good documentation and testing. Cheers, Phil _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
