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cut - lack of --merge-delimiters option
From: |
Jan Skowron |
Subject: |
cut - lack of --merge-delimiters option |
Date: |
Sun, 31 Aug 2008 19:10:55 +0200 |
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
- cut - lack of --merge-delimiters option,
Jan Skowron <=