From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: I want to contribute and chose right project for graduate thesis Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2017 00:22:20 +0200 Message-ID: <86o9sd77mr.fsf@zoho.com> References: <87vaml32zq.fsf@fliptop> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1500675795 15898 195.159.176.226 (21 Jul 2017 22:23:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2017 22:23:15 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 22 00:23:08 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dYgK8-0003Rr-M5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 Jul 2017 00:23:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44977 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dYgKB-00086s-60 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Jul 2017 18:23:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51271) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dYgJk-00086n-5F for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Jul 2017 18:22:40 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dYgJf-0000nz-9b for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Jul 2017 18:22:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=51833 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dYgJf-0000lL-3K for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Jul 2017 18:22:35 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dYgJV-0001ir-1K for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Jul 2017 00:22:25 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:+FJa2vLqBxqpGQL90kwa9g1puJ0= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:113818 Archived-At: Tomas Nordin wrote: > Some people over the years has requested the > possibility for the program to respect the > order of the fields specified (cut will > maintain the order of fields in the file). Despite using cut 27 times in my zsh source, I have never experienced any problems and I don't understand what is lacking. Perhaps because I have used it to parse command outputs, not file contents ... tho my intuition tells me, that shouldn't matter! Care to share an example where cut as it presently stands fails? -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573