On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 2:15 AM, Markus Falb <markus.falb@xxxxxxxx> 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.
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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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Thanks for everybody who pitched in
Any the issue got transformed into something else altogether.... (PHB,
vlookup 'experts' and the such for time being)
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Regards,
Rajagopal
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