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cut (v. 8.21), using -f option with a single column

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From: Stephane Chazelas <stephane.chazelas <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#20928: cut (v. 8.21), using -f option with a single column
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2015 17:42:53 +0100

2015-06-29 17:25:11 +0100, Pádraig Brady:
[...]
> > $ printf '%s\n' a:b c d:e | paste -d: - /dev/null | cut -d: -f2
> > b
> > 
> > e
> 
> Good point. Or to better support field ranges:
> 
> $ printf '%s\n' a:b c d:e | sed 's/^[^:]*$/&:/' | cut -d: -f2-
> b
> 
> e
[...]

Maybe better as:

$ printf '%b\n' a:b 'P\0341draig' d:e | sed '/:/!s/$/:/' | cut -d: -f2-

so it also works on lines that contain invalid characters.

-- 
Stephane

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