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 $ -- rgds Stephen