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Re: cut(1) feature request
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James Youngman |
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Re: cut(1) feature request |
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Sat, 18 Jun 2005 22:44:35 +0100 |
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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) is non-intuitive
> enough that I'd consider a patch adding an option to make cut
> provide the more sensible behavior.
It's still not intuitive if the user would need to know to specify
"-o". I think we can't fix the non-intuitiveness by adding an extra
option.
James.