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 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20060922/df009f04/attachment.pgp