Dave Ihnat wrote: > Now, as to why it does what it does? I don't know for sure, since > I didn't go find whoever wrote the original and ask. But I can > guess--"do one thing, and do it well." Cut is supposed to get fields > from a line-delimited data stream. Period. Rearrangement is an added > function--one that might be useful, certainly; but that can be done via > other shell tools. Exactly what I thought. It was designed to do a simple function and no more , no less. It does exactly what it was intended to do. Why some folks would want it (or expect it) to do more is beyond me. :-)
