Re: cut(1) feature request

2005-06-18 Thread Jim Meyering
Philip Rowlands [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm missing a feature in cut(1) and wanted to know if i) one can change the behaviour of the return fields or ii) add an additional parameter (let's say -F) to GNU cut. The latter option would ensure that things don't get broken, whereas the first option

Re: cut(1) feature request

2005-06-18 Thread James Youngman
On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 10:11:27PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote: Then you don't have to worry about using some non-portable GNU extension to cut in your scripts. This is sensible. In spite of all of that, the existing behavior (of not honoring the user-specified field/column-number ordering)