On 3 August 2012 14:02, Uriel <ur...@berlinblue.org> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Kurt H Maier <khm-suckl...@intma.in> wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 10:33:19AM -0400, Calvin Morrison wrote: >>> >>> I think cut is exactly the kind of job that awk (or sed) can be good >>> for. It seems crazy not to use an existing tool that implements all >>> the functionality, that can be nicely bundled in a a script. >>> >> >> To be honest, I feel the same way about head(1) -- why bother >> maintaining C when the tool is obviously a subset of another tool? > > head(1) is utterly and completely idiotic. sed 11q is superior in > every possible way. >
Might as well have a shell alias or even a script to do it for you. Either way the point I think is that these formatting programs are better suited to a program designed to handle all sorts of character stream manipulation.
