Hello Rob and all,
On 2022-01-05 9:23 a.m., Rob Landley wrote:
Around 5 years ago toybox added the -D, -F, and -O options to cut:
-D Don't sort/collate selections or match -fF lines without delimiter
-F Select fields separated by DELIM regex
-O Output delimiter (default one space for -F, input delim for -f)
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Elliott Hughes (the Android base OS maintainer) asked if I could get the feature
more widely adopted:
your non-POSIX cut(1) extension covers 80% of the in-the-wild use of awk
anyway :-)
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This is working and in use in Android, and now in busybox, and it would simplify
my regression test suite if coreutils was in sync, so I thought I'd ask if you
were interested.
I personally like the idea (at the very list "-D" will indeed replace
awk for many simple use-cases).
I'm working on a proof-of-concept (will share later today for feedback
and comments).
Do you mind sharing your test suite?
-assaf
