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From: James Heather <j.heather <at> surrey.ac.uk>
To: 9507 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9507: cut bug?
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 17:20:20 +0100

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Hi,

I'm sure this must have been spotted before, but

    cut -f2,1

produces the fields in the order 1,2 rather than 2,1. That seems wrong
to me.

Changing it would probably break a thousand scripts. But could we have
an additional option to respect the order of fields given on the command
line? It is a pain to rearrange fields with sed, though of course it can
be done.

Thanks, and keep up the good work.

James

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