On 1/7/22 9:06 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote: > I'm not sure about the --allow-duplicates long option for -D, > as the duplicate aspect is not the only or even the most important > aspect of that mode. I do like it matches the "-D", though I > don't like "-D" was used for this as I mentioned previously. > Maybe -D, --definitive-list would be better?
For reference: $ toybox --help cut Toybox 0.8.6 multicall binary: https://landley.net/toybox (see toybox --help) usage: cut [-Ds] [-bcCfF LIST] [-dO DELIM] [FILE...] Print selected parts of lines from each FILE to standard output. Each selection LIST is comma separated, either numbers (counting from 1) or dash separated ranges (inclusive, with X- meaning to end of line and -X from start). By default selection ranges are sorted and collated, use -D to prevent that. -b Select bytes -c Select UTF-8 characters -C Select unicode columns -d Use DELIM (default is TAB for -f, run of whitespace for -F) -D Don't sort/collate selections or match -fF lines without delimiter -f Select fields (words) separated by single DELIM character -F Select fields separated by DELIM regex -O Output delimiter (default one space for -F, input delim for -f) -s Skip lines without delimiters $ busybox --help cut BusyBox v1.36.0.git (2022-01-05 17:54:25 CST) multi-call binary. Usage: cut [OPTIONS] [FILE]... Print selected fields from FILEs to stdout -b LIST Output only bytes from LIST -c LIST Output only characters from LIST -d SEP Field delimiter for input (default -f TAB, -F run of whitespace) -O SEP Field delimeter for output (default = -d for -f, one space for -F) -D Don't sort/collate sections or match -fF lines without delimeter -f LIST Print only these fields (-d is single char) -F LIST Print only these fields (-d is regex) -s Output only lines containing delimiter -n Ignored The original mnemonic for -D was "Don't". :) Rob
