On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 03:52:11PM -0500, Mike Miller wrote:
> See info below. So "cut -o" was rejected by the POSIX committee I guess,
> but it seems like a good idea to me. If we can't have "cut -o", how about
> a new program "cuto" that we can add to our systems if we want it? Has
> any such thing been written? How hard would it be to write it? I guess
> the "cut -o" plan was rejected about 7 years ago.
You can use awk for that:
$ cat | awk '{print $3 " " $2 " " $2 " " $2 " " $1}'
This really works!
^D
works! really really really This
TMTOWTDI,
florin
--
If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as lines
produced but as lines spent. -- Edsger Dijkstra
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