On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Markus Falb <markus.falb at fasel.at> wrote: >> >> From: >> http://www.unix.com/unix-dummies-questions-answers/117504-question-cut-command.html >> >> [quote] ... 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 > > I tend to think that AIX is not posix compliant, then. > http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/cut.html > > The behaviour of cut makes sense to me, actually. I remember one of > the UNIX paradigms and thats "do only one thing but do it good" So sed with a regexp? sed -e 's/\([^,]*\),\([^,]*\),\([^,]*\)/\1\3\2/' -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com