On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 10:33:19AM -0400, Calvin Morrison wrote: > > I think cut is exactly the kind of job that awk (or sed) can be good > for. It seems crazy not to use an existing tool that implements all > the functionality, that can be nicely bundled in a a script. >
To be honest, I feel the same way about head(1) -- why bother maintaining C when the tool is obviously a subset of another tool?
