Re: Cut command - Issue for getting fields

[Eric Blake]

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According to Omesh_Vashisth/CHE/HSS on 9/5/2007 11:56 PM:
> 
>    cut -f12,3 -d, filename      =                 ;     and           cut 
> -f3,12 -d, filename
> 
>    Both the commands yeild    to same result with rows conatining fields 3 
> and 12    in the same sequence of 3,12.

Not a bug.  Cut is required, by POSIX, to list fields in numerical order,
or, according to 'cut --help': "Selected input is written in the same
order that it is read, and is written exactly once."  If you want to
rearrange field order, you should use something else, like awk.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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