Bad News : gnu textutils must be 100% compatible with the past Good News : I needn't be.
See : http://alexautils.sourceforge.com Which has this change for cut, plus many other improvements to gnu utils. adj At 4:35 PM -0400 5/10/02, Hacksaw wrote: > >The cut program could be changed to do things differently. But then >>it would not be cut, it would be sed, awk, perl, ruby, etc. That > >Reductio ad absurdum. I am suggesting that cut merely be taught to recognize >random amounts of whitespace as a delimiter, which would make it a more useful >utility without changing its other behaviors. That would no more make it an >awk than adding a JATO unit to a car would make it a space shuttle. > >> wc -l ~/.alias | awk '{print$1}' > >Sure, I'm aware of this, and a couple of solutions in perl. But this is a >classic case of using a cutting torch to open a can of beans. Also, it adds >quotes to the command line, which I like to avoid because they often >complicate things. _______________________________________________ Bug-textutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-textutils
