[CentOS] Cut command behaviour - bug or feature

Wed Aug 29 19:28:55 UTC 2012
Stephen Harris <lists at spuddy.org>

On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 12:25:29PM -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote:
> On 08/29/2012 09:52 AM, Markus Falb 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
> 
> Well, according to that document, AIX's cut seems to behave as POSIX and 
> Scott (on unix.com) is simply wrong about the application's behavior.

No need to guess about what AIX does:
  $ uname -svr
  AIX 1 6
  $ oslevel
  6.1.0.0
  $ echo 1,2,3,4,5 | cut -d, -f3,1,5
  1,3,5
  $

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rgds
Stephen