GNU bug report logs - #14224
Feature request for the `cut`: record delimiter

Previous Next

Full log

Message #5 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: George Brink <siberianowl <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: Feature request for the `cut`: record delimiter
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 17:26:16 -0400

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]

Hello,

I have a task of extracting several "fields" from the text file. The
standard `cut` tool could be a perfect tool for a job, but...
In my file the '\n' character is a legal symbol inside fields and therefore
the text file uses other symbol for record-separator. And the `cut` has a
hard-coded '\n' for record separator (I just checked the source from the
coreutils-8.21 package).
The fix for this should be a simple one. I can probably make it myself  but
where to send the patch?
The README in coreutils suggests to read README-hacking and HACKING for
guide-lines on making a patch, but there are no such files in the the
coreutils-8.21.tar.xz.

[Message part 2 (text/html, inline)]

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.