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I would like to add a feature to the cut command, I think
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Jeff Silverman |
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I would like to add a feature to the cut command, I think |
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Thu, 01 Apr 2004 17:26:24 -0800 |
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I am trying to parse whitespace delimited files, and it seems
intuitively obvious to me that I ought to be able to do it with the cut
command. Cut works fine with /etc/mtab, where the fields really and
truly are delimited by a single space character. But for files such as
/etc/fstab, where the fields are delimited by any amount of white space,
cut doesn't work so well.
Of course, I can do this with a one liner in perl, but that's not the point.
I'd like to modify the cut command to accept the -W switch, which says
that the fields are white space delimited. That should be a simple
change, technically. But it isn't clear to me how I go about getting
the source code, testing my change under all operating systems and
getting it accepted into the distributions. Can you advise me?
Many thanks,
Jeff
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Jeff Silverman,
Senior Computing Specialist 3, Fire and Environmental Research Applications
(FERA) team. College of Forest Resources
jeffsilv at NOSPAM,PLEASE-u-washington-edu (206) 732-7815
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