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[bug#30053] [PATCH 1/3] Improve appearance of tabular output.
From: |
Steve Sprang |
Subject: |
[bug#30053] [PATCH 1/3] Improve appearance of tabular output. |
Date: |
Tue, 16 Jan 2018 15:56:28 -0800 |
On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 6:16 AM, Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> wrote:
> Again a matter of taste, but ‘cut’ looks to me both easier and simpler
> than awk (since it’s a full language).
>
> But anyway, as Danny write, if your patches retain tabs (in addition to
> spaces), presumably it’s OK even for those of us who prefer ‘cut’,
> right?
If the tab is retained I think most uses of 'cut' keep working. The
only exception I'm aware of is this:
$ guix build --quiet --keep-going \
`guix package -A | cut -f1,2 address@hidden
Since 'cut' splits on the tab you end up retaining the padding spaces
from field 1 resulting in, say, "guile @2.2.3" instead of the
desired "address@hidden".
-Steve
[bug#30053] [PATCH 1/3] Improve appearance of tabular output., Danny Milosavljevic, 2018/01/12