coreutils program "cut" could use a "merge delimiters" option.
Common use case: ls -l | cut ... One needs to print 7-th column of ls -l to see all times of modifications. But there is no constant number of delimiters between column, eg: drwxr-xr-x 23 user group 4096 Mar 16 2006 user drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Dec 19 2003 lost+found merge delimiters option would help a lot in such cases. Without it users are forced to use "gawk" instead of "cut". Are any chances for introducing enhancements like that to coreutils? Thanks, Jan _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
