GNU bug report logs - #9777
CUT

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Marina Lorente Evangelio <maloev <at> teleco.upv.es>

Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 16:20:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Done: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>

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bug#9777; Package coreutils. (Mon, 17 Oct 2011 16:20:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
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From: Marina Lorente Evangelio <maloev <at> teleco.upv.es>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: CUT
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 16:30:20 +0200

Hello, as i am not sure if you know spanish i will write in English.

I am a studente os Telecommunications and I am trying to use cut in a  
shell that become this
Nadal,Rafa

into this:
Rafa Nadal

But I have not clear the use of cut.

Please write to me (in spanish if possible)and try to help me, I would  
be very pleased with you. Thank's a lot!
Added tag(s) notabug. Request was from Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com> to control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Mon, 17 Oct 2011 16:25:01 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
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From: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
To: Marina Lorente Evangelio <maloev <at> teleco.upv.es>
Cc: 9777-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#9777: CUT
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 10:23:10 -0600

tag 9777 notabug
thanks

On 10/17/2011 08:30 AM, Marina Lorente Evangelio wrote:
> Hello, as i am not sure if you know spanish i will write in English.
>
> I am a studente os Telecommunications and I am trying to use cut in a
> shell that become this
> Nadal,Rafa
>
> into this:
> Rafa Nadal
>
> But I have not clear the use of cut.
>
> Please write to me (in spanish if possible)and try to help me, I would
> be very pleased with you. Thank's a lot!

Sorry that I can't reply in Spanish.  Meanwhile, you are asking for 
something that cut cannot do.  Per POSIX, cut may not reorder fields; if 
you want to reorder fields, then you have to use a program designed for 
that, such as awk:

$ echo 'Nadal,Rafa' | awk -F, '{print $2 " " $1}'
Rafa Nadal

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake <at> redhat.com    +1-801-349-2682
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bug archived. Request was from Debbugs Internal Request <help-debbugs <at> gnu.org> to internal_control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Tue, 15 Nov 2011 12:24:04 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
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