On Wed, Jun 9, 2021 at 8:33 AM Rob Landley <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 6/7/21 11:14 AM, enh wrote:
> > your non-POSIX cut(1) extension covers 80% of the in-the-wild use of awk 
> > anyway
> > :-) if you still talk to any of the busybox folks, we should suggest they 
> > copy
> > that --- it would be nice for it to be a de facto standard so we can get it 
> > into
> > POSIX sometime around the 2040s... (and have made lives better for the 
> > folks who
> > don't care about standards and just want to "get things done" in the 
> > intervening
> > decades!)
>
> Hey Denys: any interest in adding cut -DF compatible with the toybox ones?
>
>   https://landley.net/toybox/help.html#cut
>
> Ala "cut -DF 3-5" selects words like awk '{print $3" "$4" "$5}'
> and the test case in
> https://github.com/landley/toybox/blob/master/tests/cut.test#L40 is doing "cut
> -DF 2,7,5" to show order is preserved.
>
> (I also added -C and -O and some other stuff, but -DF is the important bit
> there's interested in standardizing.)

Sure, I can add them.

Did you guys talk to coreutils whether _they_ want to add such opts?
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