Re: cut: Changing order of output fields

[Stephane Chazelas]

On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 03:44:33PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> >No.  Sorry.  Adding such functionality (already available via
> >other tools) would make cut's code more complex and less maintainable.
> >If you want to reorder the fields, use gawk, perl, sed, etc.
> >or a combination of cut and paste.
> 
> Since I see you're online :-) what about the patch to add cut -v (so 
> that `cut -vf1' would output all fields but the first) that I had sent 
> you quite a long time ago?
[...]

What's the problem with
cut -f2-
?

-- 
Stephane

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