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From: random832@fastmail.com (Random832)
Subject: [TUHS] A portrait of cut(1)
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 19:16:01 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87twotfl1a.fsf@fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1ZwFUy-77P-00@marmaro.de>

markus schnalke <meillo at marmaro.de> writes:
> [2015-11-09 08:58] Doug McIlroy <doug at cs.dartmouth.edu>
>> things like "cut" and "paste", whose exact provenance
>> I can't recall.
>
> Thanks for reminding me that I wanted to share my portrait of
> cut(1) with you. (I sent some questions to this list, a few
> months ago, remember?) Now, here it is:
>
> 	http://marmaro.de/docs/freiesmagazin/cut/cut.en.pdf

Did you happen to find out what GWRL stands for, in the the comments at
the top of early versions of cut.c and paste.c?

/* cut : cut and paste columns of a table (projection of a relation) (GWRL) */
/* Release 1.5; handles single backspaces as produced by nroff    */
/* paste: concatenate corresponding lines of each file in parallel. Release 1.4 (GWRL) */
/*        (-s option: serial concatenation like old (127's) paste command */

For that matter, what's the "old (127's) paste command" it refers to?




  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-11-11  0:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-09  1:39 [TUHS] PWB contributions Doug McIlroy
2015-11-09  1:48 ` John Cowan
2015-11-09  2:12 ` Clement T. Cole
2015-11-09  2:54   ` Win Treese
2015-11-09  2:58     ` Win Treese
2015-11-09  3:36       ` Clem cole
2015-11-09  3:51         ` Clem cole
2015-11-09 15:40         ` Dave Horsfall
2015-11-09 15:54           ` Clem Cole
2015-11-09 22:12         ` Mary Ann Horton
2015-11-09  3:38       ` Random832
2015-11-09  4:50         ` Clem cole
2015-11-09 13:58   ` Doug McIlroy
2015-11-09 14:02     ` Ronald Natalie
2015-11-09 14:44     ` John Cowan
2015-11-10 20:26     ` [TUHS] A portrait of cut(1) (was: PWB contributions) markus schnalke
2015-11-10 22:10       ` Clem Cole
2015-11-10 23:10       ` Andy Kosela
2015-11-10 23:12         ` John Cowan
2015-11-10 23:34           ` Larry McVoy
2015-11-10 23:39             ` John Cowan
2015-11-11  0:16       ` Random832 [this message]
2015-11-11 12:23         ` [TUHS] A portrait of cut(1) markus schnalke
2015-11-09 22:23   ` [TUHS] PWB contributions Jeremy C. Reed
2015-11-10  4:11     ` Random832
2015-11-09  4:44 ` Larry McVoy
2015-11-09  4:51   ` John Cowan
2015-11-09  5:07     ` Larry McVoy
2015-11-09  5:09       ` Larry McVoy
2015-11-09  5:16         ` John Cowan
2015-11-09  5:16         ` Leonardo Taccari
2015-11-11 12:41 [TUHS] A portrait of cut(1) Norman Wilson
2020-01-15  4:54 Brian Walden
2020-01-15  8:02 ` markus schnalke

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