On 09/01/2016 06:57 PM, scsijon wrote: >> Yes, I use cut all the time. In fact, I have never intentionally used >> awk on my own--only when copied from somebody else's one-liners. >> Usually if there's a variable run of space I cut on the punctuation next >> to it, or failing that, pipe through `sed 's/\s\+/\t/g'`. Of course, >> this probably defeats the whole advantage of using cut over awk >> (simplicity), but it's habit at this point. > > Totally agree, it took me quite some time to work out how to use cut > effectively, (we use it proficently in Puppy Linux,) but the things you > can do with it both by itself as well as with other tools makes it a > great scripting command. And it seems to 'sort out' any nesting problems > by itself, even when you really stuff up (like after a 4am session).
Um, such as? (Could you give me a couple test cases I can add to the test suite so I make sure I don't break a thing you actually use?) My question really should have been: does anybody use cut -f without -d? (Samuel holland found a couple obscure instances on github, but had to search for them.) Thanks, Rob _______________________________________________ Toybox mailing list Toybox@lists.landley.net http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/toybox-landley.net