Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
>>>>>> "Angus" == Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Angus> Anyway, I have a reasonable working knowledge of sed and I'm
> Angus> trying to improve my feeling for cut, paste etc. I 'feel'
> that Angus> I will then be able 'do' sh-scripting with a reasonable
> level Angus> of proficiency. Still don't know no awk though. The
> next play Angus> thing for a Tuesday evening ;-)
>
> Note that cut/paste is a purely gnu thing AFAIK. Not very portable.
cut, paste, join are all on Tru64 4.0e. Quoting the man page:
Interfaces documented on this reference page conform to industry
standards as follows:
cut: XPG4, XPG4-UNIX
paste: XPG4, XPG4-UNIX
join: XPG4, XPG4-UNIX
Refer to the standards(5) reference page for more information about
industry standards and associated tags.
...
XPG4
X/Open CAE specifications, Issue 4, July 1992
XPG4-UNIX
X/Open CAE specifications XBD, XCU, and XSH, Issue 4,
Version 2, 1994
A quick search for "POSIX cut" on google came up with this:
http://www-sld.slac.stanford.edu/HELP/POSIX/SHELL_COMMANDS/CUT
Sounds like they should be everywhere.
--
Angus
