cut (coreutils) 4.5.8 / missing feature

[Tjabo Kloppenburg]

Hi,

I am using different linux and unix systems with GNU.

Sometimes I want to pipe something into "cut" and get everything except
the last character. Or the last 2 characters.
I could use perl for that, but cut is smaller and should do the job, too.

In languages like php, perl, python it is possible to have nagative indexes,
say:

pwd | cut -c 0..-1 

this could cut the last character off (Newline). Counted from zero.

Or:
cut -c 1..
Could give everything after the first character (Counted from zero).

I think this would be a nice addon feature in "cut".
Count from 1 if you like that more :-).

Greets,
  T.Kloppenburg

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