* Rob Landley [2022-01-05] [gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.general]: > 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) > > This lets you do: > > $ echo one two three four five six seven eight nine | cut -DF 7,1-3,2 > seven one two three two
Nice to see that one can specify a range of fields which is not something that is as straigtforward with awk. I have also seen that it's undocumented but one can also do the even more useful: $ echo one two three four five six seven eight nine | cut -DF 1,5-$ one five six seven eight nine Do please also add the undocumented feature to cut. For now, it's alias cut='toybox cut' regards, s h e h u
