"Chris Dew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was therefore thinking that cut could have a '-r, --count-from-right' > switch, which would make all field/column values 'right-relative'.
Thanks for the suggestion, but wouldn't it be better to allow people to mix left-relative and right-relative fields in the same call to 'cut'? How about preceding the Python/Ruby-like range with "@"? Then we can get everything Python/Ruby-like all at once, including zero origin (which is clearer to me, at least). We can also use : instead of - to separate the values, to avoid ambiguity. Thus, cut -f @0 (instead of cut -f 1) cut -f @1:3 (instead of cut -f 2-3) cut -f @1:-1 (to get the sort of behavior you want) Jim Meyering has the final say on this sort of thing of course, but I think if we're going to do Python/Ruby-style ranges we should go all the way. (With "cut" and with other programs like "sort" too, but one program at a time, I suppose.) _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
