Hi I have a suggestion to allow the "cut" command to understand column (field) numbers relative to the last column. I find I need this functionality very often when working with tabular data. Currently, the expression to achieve this is clumsy:
cut -f 3,5-$(echo $(head -1 myfile | wc -w) - 3 | bc) myfile The new syntax could use +1 to specify the last column, +2 to specify the second-last, etc. This syntax is the same as for the "tail" command. Then you can achieve the same as the above expression by writing: cut -f 3,5-+3 myfile _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
