Don't know if this is the appropriate place for this, but if it isn't possible, I could "suggest" that it might be considered a bug or at least a "design deficiency". :-)
Something that's always bothered me about "cut". It seems it has at least two ways to define fields, that I'm aware of: defining by character position and defining by a delimiter. What I don't know how to do is how to select a "whitespace" delimited field. It's one of the more common field delimiters I run into. The easiest, but rather inefficient methods is to pipe the input into a shell-based "while read field1, field2..." loop, but it sure would make sense if there was an option to "cut" to handle white-space delimited fields. Is there an option to "cut" that I don't know about, or am I looking in the wrong place for this type of functionality, or is this a feature "deficit", in "cut", that needs remedying? Thanks, Linda _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
