On 6/6/25 12:21 AM, Martin D Kealey wrote:
On Thu, 5 Jun 2025 at 20:22, Duncan Roe <duncan_...@optusnet.com.au> wrote:On Wed, Jun 04, 2025 at 09:43:00AM -0400, Chet Ramey wrote:Is it useful to combine multiple selected fields (-f) into one space- separated field so `cut' can put the selected portions of each line into a corresponding array element?I'm inclined to think not. Because, what if a field itself contains spaces?If taking this approach, I would expect the fields to be recombined using the same separator as was used to split them apart, since fields cannot contain the field separator.
I think this is reasonable.
This would be consistent with what the “cut” utility does, and more useful for subsequent processing.
OK, how about this: the elements of the array, starting at 0, should be
exactly what `cut' would print to stdout if the array argument were not
supplied.
That seems more useful than the current behavior.
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