[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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