Linda Walsh wrote: > 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?
That is a deficiency IMHO. For all the coreutils there should be a way to specify which fields, delimters defaulting to runs of whitespace, but one can specify delimiters also. sort supports this, and a lot of other utils will probably get this functionality at some stage. For a work around, see the comments at the top of: http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/add Pádraig. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
