[CentOS] Cut command behaviour - bug or feature

[Gordon Messmer]

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.