[Toybox] cut is nuts.
Rob Landley
rob at landley.net
Sun Sep 4 01:11:39 PDT 2016
I expected:
$ echo abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz | cut -b 10-20,5-15
jklmnopqrs efghijklmn
$ echo one two three | cut -d " " -f 1,3,1
one three one
$ echo one two three | cut -d " " -f 3,2,1
three two one
But what it's doing is:
$ echo abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz | cut -b 10-20,5-15
efghijklmnopqrst
$ echo one two three | cut -d " " -f 1,3,1
one three
$ echo one two three | cut -d " " -f 3,2,1
one two three
Sigh... so turning this into an awk replacement isn't as neat a fit as I
thought. Why is it doing any of this? Honestly couldn't tell you.
(Conservation of bytes?)
Rob
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