tags 379187 +wontfix thanks On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 01:20:53PM -0400, you wrote:
I don't understand. 'perl', 'awk', and 'sed' are, (to varying degrees), general purpose languages, but 'cut' is a single purpose utility. Solving a problem in a general purpose language does little to improve a single purpose utility.
And when you add enough functionality to a single-purpose utility it becomes a general purpose language. It's unnecessary cruft on top of cut, and I'm not going to put it in the debian version. If you want to try to get it added upstream, fine. Personally I don't see that adding another set of switches to cut is in any way going to result in something simpler than awk '{print $5}' for the problem you presented. (Or, as I originally suggested, stat -c '%s'.) You already mentioned a way to do have the shell parse it. So there's a million ways to solve this problem--why does the world need another one?
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