Matthew Woehlke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steven Schubiger wrote: >> Would `linecut --range 1:2,3:4,-100:-1` be considered sensible? > > Do you plan to have a means of specifying a number of lines? E.g.: > > $ seq 10 | linecut --range 5,+3 > 5 > 6 > 7 > $ > > @Jim, 'addr1,addr2' syntax belongs to sed, so I would argue it isn't > "new". It's also easier to type when specifying only one range :-).
Sure, but sed doesn't have the notion of a *sequence* of ranges, so it doesn't have to worry about parsing more than one. Compare with cut, which does. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
