On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 2:15 AM, Markus Falb markus.falb@fasel.at wrote:
On 28.8.2012 21:59, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote:
cut cuts out, that what it does. I think it works exactly as advertised. On my system the manpage says
...snip Selected input is written in the same order that it is read, and is written exactly once snap...
See below
Is it specific to linux?
No!
I would think, yes.
From: http://www.unix.com/unix-dummies-questions-answers/117504-question-cut-comma...
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In AIX (for example) if you said
Code: echo 1,2,3,4,5 | cut -d, -f3,1,5
you would get output as 3,1,5
But the cut command in Linux behaves differently.
From the man page:
Quote: Selected input is written in the same order that it is read, and is written exactly once.
Which I think is poor. I can't see any way to do what you want with cut.
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