On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 09:07:34AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Looking at this briefly this looks to be very similar to actions > provided by sed, head and tail. Could you describe features in > linecut that are not present there?
An introductory word: linecut was specifically designed with solely one purpose in mind. Feature comparison (should I be wrong, correct me): Compared to sed: - sed doesn't easily allow for aligned line-numbering output. Compared to head: - head always works from the beginning whereas linecut doesn't. Compared to tail: - tail always works towards the end whereas linecut doesn't. Sure, you could chain 'head | tail' (or vice versa), build a wrapper script in awk/perl or some other script language around (s)ed or cut, but I didn't like the idea. > I also did not see any tests. Good catch. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
