Re: [dev] [PATCH] sbase: add cut

From: Martin Kopta <martin_AT_kopta.eu>
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2012 19:42:05 +0200

On 08/02/2012 04:34 PM, Kurt H Maier wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 10:33:19AM -0400, Calvin Morrison wrote:
>>
>> I think cut is exactly the kind of job that awk (or sed) can be good
>> for. It seems crazy not to use an existing tool that implements all
>> the functionality, that can be nicely bundled in a a script.
>>
>
> To be honest, I feel the same way about head(1) -- why bother
> maintaining C when the tool is obviously a subset of another tool?

This is what happens.

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