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From: cowan@mercury.ccil.org (John Cowan)
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 18:39:16 -0500
Subject: [TUHS] A portrait of cut(1) (was: PWB contributions)
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Larry McVoy scripsit:

> cut .... | awk '{print $2,$1}'

I didn't say there was no workaround.  But obviously "cut -f 3,2,1"
expresses a particular intention which (by design) cut will not satisfy.

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John Cowan          http://www.ccil.org/~cowan        cowan at ccil.org
Pour moi, les villes du Silmarillion ont plus de realite que Babylone.
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